Firewire disk install on OEL6

I am trying to setup firewire disk with OEL 6 2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek.i686. I cannot find the rpm for the oracle kernel. Any help, appreciate.

There should be no rpm necessary. Open a terminal and type the following:
sudo modprobe firewire-ohciThis should load the firewire driver and you should be able to access your device.

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I have a laptop running windows 2000 and I have a External Firewire Hard Disk of 60 GB. Now my question is, " Is it possible to install Solaris 8 on this external Firewire Hard Disk". When I tried installing, It did not find the external Firewire Disk, the only partition information, which solaris was displaying was from my internal Hard Disk.
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First off, is any of your Macs an Intel Mac, that will complicate matters since they use a different hard drive formatting and need a different installation of Mac OS X.
Secondly, you can't directly install Mac OS X from an Intel Mac to an external hard drive, you have to do a clone with a software like Shirt-Pocket's Superduper for that.
If it isn't an Intel Mac, perhaps your Firewire hard drive isn't Mac OS X bootable? Not all are.
Here's a hint on making the Intel/PowerPC partition table:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006061610374449
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hi, i've got a Lacie Porche 250GB firewire drive, partitioned in two parts, and i want to install tiger on the first 50GB partition, but the installer give me an error about the destination: "You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. Mac OS X cannot start up from this volume."
i'm trying to do this with an ibook G4 and the standard Tiger DVD Install.
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Panther Install to firewire disk keeps crashing

Hi guys,
Ok, my powerbook has some sort of disk corruption and won't boot. What I need to do is install my copy of Panther onto an external drive, boot from that to give me a working computer, then I can attempt to fix/backup the corrupted drive.
I've tried to install to an iPod via firewire - the install crashes, hangs or just exits, generally at the "Processing base Installation 2 - writing files 22%" stage - it has certainly never got beyond that.
I've just received a firewire/usb drive and the same thing happens with that as well.
Any reason why the Panther install keeps crashing? It's just being booted from the master DVD.
Disk utility doesn't help either.
(Note: I'm using a PCMCIA firewire card, as an external hardware device fried my firewire ports)
I've now tried to install panther about 80 times without success. The disk itself is fine. I don't have another Mac to use in firewire target mode.
Any help? I'm off to do some more research in the meantime...
Many thanks,

Ok - the reason the OSX Installer was crashing all the time was my RAM - I replaced the machines original memory, and the installer does not crash.
I wish I'd done this much earlier, it could have saved me quite some hassle, but there you go...
Ok, as I was running out of patience, here is what I did. After I had cloned the internal drive to the HD, and created a second DMG image of the internal drive as an extra backup, I crossed my fingers and wiped the internal drive, and reinstalled OSX (yes, the installer still crashed, which was what let me to finally try with my old RAM, and it then worked).
Now I had a working computer, I set Diskwarrior to work on the cloned drive, hoping and praying that it would recover my files - it reported loads of errors, so whatever had happened to the drive was pretty major.
DW did recover pretty much everything, although a lot of the directory structure was garbled (alas no hope of cloning this back to the internal drive and have the computer exactly as it was before). But at least I can get to my important files. Yay!
Now I'm going through and reinstalling/updating and restoring everything, which is a time consuming process - but I'd rather that than lose everything.
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- If you experience random crashes and have replacement RAM, keep the old RAM and put it back in to see if that solves the issue.
- The external FW drive I bought to help fix this will have a partion dedicated to a cloned backup drive, and probably a light system-only partition too. This will make troubleshooting and restoring fairly easy.
- Good disk utilities are worth the money.
- Remember to archive important stuff on a regular basis, not just when you can be bothered to fire up a blank DVD.
- A clean system install may help me with one or two other symptoms my Mac was exhibiting (sleep sometimes shut computer down, bluetooth flaky)
- Any software which uses more copy protection than the usual serial is a pain to reinstall (apart from dongled software, which is easy)
- This computer is going to have a much cleaner system and more disk space available, as the crap is gone and only what I currently need will survive.
- Do not throw your OSX install disks away. They might be the only thing standing between you and your files some day.
- External firewire/usb drives are good.
- I've learnt lots about single-user mode, disk utility, and mounting and checking drives during the process.
Thanks for your help C - at least we had a (kind of) happy ending in the end! Phew!

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Seek your advice camrades. Googled for solution but found no clear answer.
I have iBook G3 500MHz (Dual USB) 256 MB RAM with faulty CD-ROM.
G3 had OS X crashed and totally unesponding. Safe boot, singleuser and other basic steps have not helped. I have 4 installation CD's of 10.4 but, I repeat, CD-ROM drive is not working.
When G3 book is started in FireWire 'Target Disk Mode' the connected G4 (I have one more ibook with 10.5 Leopard) book recognizes the faulty G3 disk and directory structure. So I saved as much data as possible and succesfully wiped the the faulty G3 HDD to have a clear install.
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What size is the hard drive? If it's 10 or 15 or even maybe 20 GB (some that were custom-built had a 20 GB hard drive), that's the original drive.
Asking an iBook that originally came with Mac OS 9 as the default OS to run Mac OS X 10.4.11 is asking quite a lot from it. And you're using it with the minimum RAM requirement for Mac OS X 10.4, too.
I kept my 500 MHz iBook in OS 9 and when I wanted to step up, I bought an iBook G3 (Dual USB) 800 MHz with Mac OS X 10.3 installed.
I maximized the RAM on both of them with a 512 MB RAM module in the one user-accessible RAM slot. (Doing that could speed things up a bit for you, too, but I'm not sure it's worth the upgrade, what with the broken CD drive.)
When I wanted to step up to Mac OS X 10.4, I bought an iBook G4.
So you are asking quite a lot from that ancient little beastie. You are asking it to run an OS which is 5 years newer than it is. If it feels creaky, that's probably why.
A new hard drive wouldn't be all that expensive, but they're difficult to install.
Hard drive at Other World Computing
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While you're at it, you may as well replace the optical drive, too.
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Your call.

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I recently upgraded a PowerBook G4 from 10.4.11(?) to 10.5.5. Now I cannot open its external disk, a LaCie 400 GB Firewire disk, model number 300925, like this: http://www.amazon.com/Lacie-400GB-7200Rpm-Firewire-300925/dp/B00066989Mreport
The disk's icon appears on the desktop after it is plugged in. After double clicking to open it, the pinwheel cursor spins for a while, then Finder appears to restart, redrawing the desktop. When I have the Activity Monitor open during this, I see a process called ReportCrash run for a while before the Finder reset.
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All my stuff is kept on these disks so the iMac runs light.
After awakening from sleep, I often find that one of the Firewire Disks or the USB Flash Drive has gone AWOL and it's a real pain to get the Firewire Disk working again. The USB Flash Drive requiring to be plugged in again.
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Tried all that, doesn't solve the issue.
Incidentally, I have Arcana Startuo Sound installed, this mutes the AWFULL Apple Diagnostic Startup Sound that some Apple Idiot devised.
Surely an on-screen message after startup, warning that something is amiss would be the sensible alternative?
Apple have more than their fair share of the number of idiots they employ, witness the Wireless Keyboard, a Keyboard without Page up/down keys and Calculator keys? I admit the Wireless Keyboard does comes in useful for iPad!
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Arcana isn't available for Mountain Lion, my Arcana copy only works with Mountain Lion through a legacy process.
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Hi guys,
I'm having a bit of an issue with the new iMac that I picked up yesterday. There seems to be an issue with mounting disk devices connected to the Firewire 400 port. Disk devices mount fine off the Firewire 800 port. The bizarre thing is that I plugged an old iSight camera into the Firewire 400 port and it works fine. This seems to eliminate both the possibility that the Firewire controller is faulty and that the FW 400 port is dead.
Just to remove the possibility that it could be a crappy driver, I installed XP via bootcamp but I get exactly the same issue. (although windows is a little more specific. It actually detects the name of the disk device but says it cannot be started)
I've zapped the PRAM and left the machine dormant and unplugged for 30 mins to no avail. Could someone plug a disk device into their FW400 port and see if they get the same issue i.e. nothing happens? (card reader, laptop in FW target mode, external HDD)
I'll take the machine back if I have to but I really loathe the though of lugging this thing back to the Apple store.
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I also am having trouble.
I cannot mount my eMac in target disk mode. The only way I could get the eMac drive to mount was if I put a firewire disk in line with the eMac. i.e. a firewire cable from the eMac to the disk and another cable from the disk to the iMac. (Same model 24" 2.4GHz aluminum).
I thought the issue was with my eMac, but when I went to connect my Canon CanoScan 9950F scanner the iMac would not see it unless I also went through the firewire drive.
I have since learned that the drive does not have to be on and spun up, but it has to bridge the connection. The drive I'm using is model PHR-100AF Macally 3.5" enclosure.
I have been able to mount this drive without having to chain it through anything else. I've also been able to mount a Macally PHR-250CC 2.5" enclusure and a el cheapo 3.5" enclosure that uses the Prolific PL-3507 chip. Also, my 3rd generation iPod mounts just fine.
I don't have anything for the FW800 port so all my experiences are with the FW400 port.
My question is:
Is there something wrong with my iMac that it cannot mount my eMac in target disk mode without being chained to another external drive?
Is there something wrong with my beautiful, new 24" aluminum 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo imac that it cannot connect to my Canon CanoScan 9950F scanned?
I expect more from Apple. I expect that it should at least work with their own hardware (the eMac).
Should I go back to the Apple Store and complain?
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Chris
p.s. I guess I should ask my own question huh?
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I hope someone can help me on this.
My HD is almost dead and it's making a lot of noise. I have managed to create a boot disk
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I had a friend that was good with OpenFirmware add a delay before booting to give the drive time to become ready. Added 5 seconds to the boot process, but it works!
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after some installations (OS 10.4.9, latest security update and Qucktime 7.1.6 I canot boot from my external disk (Lacie) connected to FireWire 800 port. The Apple shows up but then nothing more happens. Does anyone have a hint?
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Hi all,
A hint that I have discovered whilst trying to create a backup on a Firewire external Hard disk and boot my eMac from it.
eMac 1.0GHz (ATI), OS X Tiger 10.4.7 and OWC Mercury Elite Pro 40Gb firewire external disk (Oxford 911+ chipset)
I created a bootable backup using both Carbon Copy Cloner and/or Rsyncx on the firewire disk, but with the same results each time - it woudn't boot from startup manager. I was careful to make sure that the disk was bootable and it would boot from the FW disk after selecting it in system preferences/startup disk and restarting. O.K so far.
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. Make sure your firewire external drive is turned on and plugged in to a firewire port on your eMac.
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.Keep holding the option key until the startup manager icons appear.
.Once the startup manager appears, it will take about 30 secs to 1 min to scan for drives.
. Usually icons showing your internal bootable drives will show along with a rescan and continue icon.
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.The system will then rescan and find the firewire drives and show their icons as well as the internal drive icons.
. Select the firewire drive (You did give it a unique name didn't you?) and the click the continue arrow on the right.
. Watch the FW drive activity light and you should see lots of flashing and there you are - booting from the FW drive.
I couldn't find any reference in all the help references to holding down the opt key to rescan, so maybe it is peculiar to this eMac?
Give it a try and be sure to let me know if it works for you.
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OK JMVP, but there is something a little strange here.
After I booted the system whilst holding down the OPTION key, startup manager appeared and scanned for drives but only showed the normal internal drives. (By this time I had already released the OPTION key). I clicked the re-scan icon and same thing, still no FW drive. According to all the Apple help files it should show the external FW drive as well.
But, when I held down the the OPTION key and clicked the rescan icon again, it rescanned and showed the internal drives AND the FW drive. Maybe it's an undocumented feature of startup manager, maybe it's peculiar to the FW drive I'm using
I will try to update the firmware, but the manufacturers website says it doesn't need updating to work with Tiger. Other than this minor prob it already seems to be working OK. Just won't show up in the startup manager without rescanning with the option key pressed.
I did notice whilst searching the help files that there is another option to boot from external drives:
Hold down Option-Command-Shift-Delete keys during startup - this will Bypass primary startup volume and seek a different startup volume (such as a CD or external disk). It didn't work in my case.
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