If you view the manual for ditto ( man ditto) in 10.6, you should see this option listed: So the Quicktime X executable only takes up about 40% of its reported size that's nice, but what about using this compression for our own files?Īs it turns out, Apple has actually proved a way to use this new compression. You can also tell how much space the compression has saved from this output: The logicalSize for the resource fork is the size of the compressed data (6618026 bytes in this case), and the uncompressed size is 16652848 (the same size that the Finder reports). This output shows that the QuickTime X executable has the xattr (the xattr command line utility in 10.6 hides this attribute), which means that the file is compressed using HFS+ compression.
So the question remains, why is that hard drive working, and my 10GB clean install not?Įdited by Siriusfox, 06 August 2007 - 01:24 PM.$ sudo hfsdebug /Applications/QuickTime Player.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickTime Playerįork temperature = no HFC record in B-TreeĮxtents = startBlock blockCount % of fileġ616 allocation blocks in 1 extents total.ġ616.00 allocation blocks per extent on an average.ĪttrData = 66 70 6d 63 04 00 00 00 30 1a fe 00 00 00 00 00Ĭompression type = 4 (resource fork has compressed data)
I'll edit this post in about half an hour with the results.Įdit: Ok, swapping out for a working install of Mac OS 8.6 worked fine. Should the OS boot fine, then I know the problem is with the OS install, or the hard drive. Should I still have problems, than I know that the fix is in the Open Firmware. I'm contemplating putting the 4GB back in to see if it works. However, I don't know what the 256K one is. The 1st is an Apple partition map, and the second of the 32K should be apple patches to make the computer understand more than 4 partitions. From what I know about Apple partitioning. I took a look at a smaller 4GB hard drive, that I had working before, and it has a 3x32K Unknown partitions, and a 256 unkown partition. The machine can boot and install with no problems (or more specifically errors), it only has a problem when booting comes around. I think I should back off of linux for now, and just focus on getting the Mac OS to work. I can't even get the OS to install right. What I don't get, is all of these installs talk about doing things after the install of Mac OS goes correctly. I can reboot into a different OS and see the files that the Mac System installer put on the hard drive, I just can't boot into the operating system. The only reason I haven't done it is that the data is being written fine. I can't get a copy of Mac OS 9, but I can pull an extra 40GB drive out of my PC.
However, we stopped using this computer in about 2002 when we bought our first iMac G4, so the update should already be installed. So I can't get the files for upgrading across the network to do a Firmware upgrade.
And even with the OS9 drivers the Live CD version of OS 8 doesn't like my USB Thumb drive, and there are no web browsers to access the file if I host it locally on an FTP or HTTP server. I can't access my OSX Machines, or the NAS on the iMac. Does anyone know of a tool (on the CD, or on the internet) that would properly partition the hard drive with the required boot partition, or a way to do so from within the installer? So I need some help from some of the older Mac guys out there.
I assume this is because the "Disk Setup" tool does not know if the hard drive I'm partitioning will be used as a boot hard drive or not. Using a few linux tools, as far as I can trace it the default installer and partition tool did not install the NewWorld boot partition that the Mac OS needs to boot. The only time I've seen this used in the past is when the hard drive could not be found. I get the BIOS error of the flashing folder, question mark, and finder logo. The problem is that the system would not start up into the new system. The install went fine on the partition, and I rebooted when it was done. The CD booted fine (holding C at boot), and then using the attached partition tool on said CD, I initialized the hard drive. My first thought was to Install some old Linux distro or something, but most things I had read said to install the Mac OS if you want to dual boot, so I said what the heck and started with the System Restore CD's for said iMac. This new drive worked just fine, and I put a 10GB blank hard drive into the computer. I have a broken iMac lying around with nothing wrong save the lack of a hard drive and the CD-ROM drive was shot. I recently stumbled across a new iMac G3 CD ROM Drive.