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06-23-2009, 01:43 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 554
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Originally Posted by InteliMacPro
I also think OS X installs an invisible EFI partition that would count towards this total, so that may be your problem. Honestly you'd be better off doing this on two drives.
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OS X only creates the hidden EFI partition when formatting a disk as GUID.
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Originally Posted by InteliMacPro
Well a retail install can be done without the vanilla kernel, such as the voodoo kernel on AMD systems, but it kind of defeats the purpose IMO, so may as well use a distro.
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I'm sorry but that is very bad advice. We should be encouraging people to move away from the 'old way' of prepatched distros. When I was running retail on my old AMD hack, being able to update using ASU was a dream come true. Common threads like 'How do I update to 10.5.7' and 'Which distro should I use' would become a thing of the past.
As kexts (and the voodoo kernel in this instance) are separated from the system, software update can safely be used, because they don't get overwritten unlike when using distros.
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