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How to work with MacOS 10.2
Authored by: decelerate on Apr 21, '05 04:55:31AM

In OS 10.2, the "diskutil" command does not support the important parameter "MBRFormat" meanwhile the "fdisk" command does not work with external drive as described in OS 10.3 with the option "-e". Therefore, the previous posts said their method only work with OS 10.3. Here is my solution, upgrade the "fdisk" command from the opensource project at apple.com.

Here is the link for open source project
<url>http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.3.9/</url>

1. From the above link, click the link "diskdev_cmds-277.4"
2. From the link, click the link "fdisk.tproj"
3. From the link, download the files in the link.
4. Type "make" in the directory containing the downloaded files
5. [Optional] You may backup the file "fdisk" in the directory "/usr/sbin"
6. Type "make install", the new "fdisk" command is ready. :-)

Note that the "make install" command statement should be run as the "root" user.



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