mingistech Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Here is my method for installing Leopard Beta alongside Tiger on the same physical internal drive. (this method works on intel based macs only) 1. Partition your hard drive with Bootcamp. (non-destructive partitioning) [i gave about 30GB to Leopard and left the rest of my 250GB drive to Tiger.] 2. Reboot your system with the Tiger installation disk in your drive holding down the "c" key. Use the Tiger installation disk to run "Disk Utility" instead of Leopard Beta Disk (more reliable utility) 3. After booting from DVD in Disk Utility select your newly created partition in the left colum then goto the Erase Tab. Make sure Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) is selected for the new Partition format and click the erase button in the lower left. (Doing this erases the Windows formated Partition and creates a Mac OS formatted partition in it's place.) 4. Now reboot your Mac with the Lepoard WWDC disk in and run a full installation on your newly created partition. This dual boot method has worked flawless for me. If anyone has question feel free to PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 That's exactly what I was going to do. I'll let you know how it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 4. Go into System Preferences to select my Startup Disk when needed. Or hold down the Option key on boot to show available OS's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
np101137 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 will the apps found in the dvd work on a hackintosh? like dashcode for example? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mingistech Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 That's exactly what I was going to do. I'll let you know how it works. well... you got in running. what installation method did you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 I have had the image for a couple days now but I cannot get it to install! I get the boot icon that is a circle with a line through it (looks like the no-smoking symbol if that helps). I booted from a DVD and I tried to boot off a external HDD that I had restored the Leopard image too and nothing is working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 It appears that you need to set the partition scheme as GUID!!! IMPORTANT FOR INTEL PEOPLE!!!!! http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303220 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piracy Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 is anyone on a G4? Can someone post how they installed on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Burn it to a dual layer dvd...and boot from the dvd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d1g1ta7 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 will the apps found in the dvd work on a hackintosh? like dashcode for example? Dashcode works if you change the installer requirements from 10.5 to 10.4. Its not really stable, either. I didn't run it on Tiger. So it may just be the Application, or it has problems when running on not-Leopard. You could also copy the XCode tools to some other folder, and burn the DVD. Then install them once OS X is installed. There's not a need for them on the DVD - you can't install them during boot installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrsdead Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 If i boot my powerbook into firewire target mode can i install leopard from my hackintosh onto my powerbook (i.e. its not going to install the intel version on my PPC machine)? jrsdead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritzsCorner Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 Mingistech, I used your method to install Leopard and it worked just fine. After installing boot camp I just chose not to install Windows and rebooted to the Leopard install dvd. I then went to disk utillity and formated the second partition and installed leopard. I am actually posting this message to you now using leopard on my 20" Core Duo iMac. I have had some time to play around with the new features and they work great. While a lot of these new features are cool I am going to restore my mac back to one partition running Tiger and wait until the spring for the official release. I can't wait to see what some of the "Secret" features are. Fritz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilsmaks Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 thanks for the install help, well see how it goes once i get leo so clcose so close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asapreta Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 Anyone tried to do a dual boot or upgrade on a hackintosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisc Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 You could also copy the XCode tools to some other folder, and burn the DVD. Then install them once OS X is installed. There's not a need for them on the DVD - you can't install them during boot installation. Hi How can I edit the dmg-File so that the xCode-Folder is left out but the dmg-File is still bootable? (I want to burn it on a normal DVD, just leaving the xCode-Folder out) Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 Anyone tried to do a dual boot or upgrade on a hackintosh? im gonna give it a go as i have nothing better to do.... although i highly doubt it will work max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelelliott394 Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 is anyone on a G4? Can someone post how they installed on that? i'm running an ibook g4, haven't finished the download yet, everything just stopped all of a sudden. i'm planning on that whole non-destructive partitioning using ipartition or something, just make an 8 gig partition and mount the image and install to the 8 gigs of space....If not i'll probably use my 40 gig iPod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stegve Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 How can I edit the dmg-File so that the xCode-Folder is left out but the dmg-File is still bootable? (I want to burn it on a normal DVD, just leaving the xCode-Folder out) I have the same question, who can help us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mingistech Posted August 13, 2006 Author Share Posted August 13, 2006 Next I plan on installing Lepoard on a 600Mhz G3 iBook. Anyone running this baby on a G3 yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvv Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 hi guys i have finished the downloading of leopard dvd. i want to install it on my ibook g4's hd using my ipod 60gb 5g. i erased the whole thing and then restored the dmg onto the ipod, successful. however when i try to install, i opent he installer from finder, restart, and then i end up booting into tiger. my ipod still shows up as a ipod icon and if i press c to boot with it it just boots into 10.4 i cant set it as the startup disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepolishtwin Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 Holding C down tries to boot off the CD drive, you need to restart holding the option key down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvv Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 if i hold down option it just shows 1 disk (ibooks hd) i dont think i completely erased correctly, because it is still showing up as a ipod does restoring the leopard dmg move the contents of it to the ipod because i cant mount it now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rakusuira Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Alright, sorry for creating a new thread, didn't see this one. Is there a way I can partition my NTFS external HD so that my data is safe but I have a new HFS partition? Hopefully shareware. I cannot use gparted because I do not have an Ubuntu live cd. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdesmus Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 A note for those of us without a Mac keyboard...keep in mind if you have a Mactel with the remote you can hold down the "menu" button on the remote to select what you want to boot from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Guru Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Ah... who needs BootCamp. I use QTParted and it is more tweaky than BootCamp when it comes to partitioning. Guru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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