flare389 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Hey guys, I have a working version of Leopard (Kalway) and I want to know if it's possible to partition the drive and install a version of Windows. If so what is the best way without risking messing up my current Leopard installation? Thanks, Caleb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 It's possible to partition, but what's the rest of your hardware? If you have an lga 775 P4, or Core 2 duo, I would reccomend Vista more than XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Here's my hardware: Core 2 Duo Gigabyte p35 ds3r 2 gb ram Why would you recommend Vista more? Just wondering, I had it installed before I set up my hackintosh. I'm planning on using windows just for gaming and I thought XP would be faster. Caleb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAX711 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I'd like to do the same thing too. I'm pretty sure XP will write over the OS X boot record, but can it be fixed through Terminal without having to re-install Leopard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dci693 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 If you can spare the cash and have the space in your case (laptops won't work), unhook your OSX HD, get yourself another HD and install XP on it, make sure XP is set to be bootable, hook the OSX drive back up, boot into XP, use the chain0 method of dual booting (find it on wikipedia) to switch between the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 If you can spare the cash and have the space in your case (laptops won't work), unhook your OSX HD, get yourself another HD and install XP on it, make sure XP is set to be bootable, hook the OSX drive back up, boot into XP, use the chain0 method of dual booting (find it on wikipedia) to switch between the two. So there's no way to do it on the same partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 So there's no way to do it on the same partition? the method can be used in the single disk or different disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 the method can be used in the single disk or different disk I need to be clear about how to do it on a single disk to keep from screwing up my Leopard installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAX711 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I just tried installing XP and it worked. Here's what I did.... I already had a spare partition on my drive that I was using for backups, but if you don't I think GParted or similar may be able to create one for you. Pop in the XP CD and install onto your empty partition, XP doesn't show partitions, just drive letters, so you have to kind of guess which one is NOT your Leopard. I assumed that the first drive was the Leopard one so installed to the second drive, which fortunately was correct. You may also be able to tell by the size of the partitions if they are different. Once it's done you will only be able to boot into XP. Stick in your Leopard install CD (mine was from Kalyway) Let it load up to the install screen then select "Terminal" from the menu. Type "diskutil list" and look to see the disk and partition your Leopard system is on (mine was disk0s1) now type "fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX" where X is the disk number from the previous line then type "update" then type "f Y" where Y is the partition number for your Leopard (1 in my case) now type "q", you'll get a warning, just answer yes Reboot and press any key and you should get a list of options, Leopard and XP. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 I just tried installing XP and it worked. Here's what I did.... I already had a spare partition on my drive that I was using for backups, but if you don't I think GParted or similar may be able to create one for you. Pop in the XP CD and install onto your empty partition, XP doesn't show partitions, just drive letters, so you have to kind of guess which one is NOT your Leopard. I assumed that the first drive was the Leopard one so installed to the second drive, which fortunately was correct. You may also be able to tell by the size of the partitions if they are different. Once it's done you will only be able to boot into XP. Stick in your Leopard install CD (mine was from Kalyway) Let it load up to the install screen then select "Terminal" from the menu. Type "diskutil list" and look to see the disk and partition your Leopard system is on (mine was disk0s1) now type "fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX" where X is the disk number from the previous line then type "update" then type "f Y" where Y is the partition number for your Leopard (1 in my case) now type "q", you'll get a warning, just answer yes Reboot and press any key and you should get a list of options, Leopard and XP. Good luck! K, one question. Can I add a partition in Disk Utility in Leopard? And what format does it need to be? NTFS right? Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAX711 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 K, one question. Can I add a partition in Disk Utility in Leopard? And what format does it need to be? NTFS right? Thanks a lot. You cannot add a partition using "Disk Utility" in Leopard, it will wipe everything, as far as I know. The format of the partition is irrelevant because XP will re-format it when it loads. Try GParted from here http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/ Burn it to a CD and boot off it. I think they also have a USB version if you can boot of USB drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 You cannot add a partition using "Disk Utility" in Leopard, it will wipe everything, as far as I know. The format of the partition is irrelevant because XP will re-format it when it loads. Try GParted from here http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/ Burn it to a CD and boot off it. I think they also have a USB version if you can boot of USB drive? This won't mess up Leopard will it? I'm using GUID, and Journaled formats for it's partition. Anything I need to know before I try this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAX711 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 This won't mess up Leopard will it? I'm using GUID, and Journaled formats for it's partition. Anything I need to know before I try this? Ah! Didn't know you were using GUID. I've heard you can resize and make partitions with Disk Utility if your using GUID, but don't know from experience, I'm using MBR. I'm pretty sure XP and Vista don't work with GUID, I've reached the limit of my limited knowledge, sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Ah! Didn't know you were using GUID. I've heard you can resize and make partitions with Disk Utility if your using GUID, but don't know from experience, I'm using MBR. I'm pretty sure XP and Vista don't work with GUID, I've reached the limit of my limited knowledge, sorry hmmm.... that's not cool. All I need to know is if XP will dual boot with Leopard on GUID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artist Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Why don't you try the "BootCamp" solution? Run Bootcamp so it'll create a new partition for you and it'll guide you through the installation of XP (or Vista)! Bootcamp will try to create the driver for Windows to use but just use Windows drivers (since it's PC anyway) when you got Windows install! Just my idea, let us know if it works that way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 Why don't you try the "BootCamp" solution? Run Bootcamp so it'll create a new partition for you and it'll guide you through the installation of XP (or Vista)! Bootcamp will try to create the driver for Windows to use but just use Windows drivers (since it's PC anyway) when you got Windows install! Just my idea, let us know if it works that way! I'm using Kalyway and when I try to run bootcamp it says I have to update my computer's boot ROM firmware. Sounds iffy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 Is there anybody that can use bootcamp on a hackintosh using kalyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qw3rty Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I think what you are going to have to do is backup your Leopard data, reformat your drive using MBR, and make at least 2 partitions. Install OS X on one and XP on the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 I think I'll just wait and buy a new internal hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paullez Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 i have osx running on a Iomega external usb harddrive 120 GB. (sata) at boot i can select a drive , internal or cd/dvd-drive ore the usb hardisk whit OSX. on the internal disk i have VIsta. in the bios i can select the boot order running fine (accept audio) on the HP NX7400. to get osx on the USB drive. i put it in my laptop en started teh Kalyway setup 10.5.1. after the instalation, put it back in the drive case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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