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In Getting together a pNFS storage community I explored putting OpenSolaris on a Mac Mini. Here I'm going to talk about reversing that.

First things, the mini I am working with seems to have a screwy interaction with both my IOGear kvm and my wired Mac keyboard. The other two minis I have work fine with both.

I'm reverting back to see if I can get the machine to work with the kvm in the native OS.

Okay, pop in your installation disk - in my case it is Tiger. The first thing you will notice is that the install can not find a disk to install on to. Start Disk Utility, then:

• Select your disk. It should be the 120G drive.
• Select partition.
• Select options
• At this point, either reset to default or change from MBR to GUID partition table

And then Bob is your uncle! At this point you can change the partition to 1 huge one and select your other options. Then partition it. If you skip the steps to change to a GUID table, then this partitioning will not work. Once done, exit Disk Utility and go about a normal install.

Note, I bet I could have used Disk Utility to have avoided Ubuntu when going the other route.