anthony_c Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Ok, I have a vista laptop (plenty of HDD space) that i installed ubuntu onto via wubi (www.wubi-installer.org). After examining how exactly wubi did this without any partitioning, one can only wonder why you can't use wubi to install a mac (*cough* deadmoo's tiger.img *cough*) operating system the same way, e.g. no partitioning. It's tricky - here's how wubi works: 1. computer boots past bios, loads the windows bootloader which gives the option Vista/xp or ubuntu. i select ubuntu. 2. NTLDR loads grub from the c:\ubuntu\something.mbr file 3. grub loads the kernel into memory from the C:\ drive, loads the NTFS drivers, then mounts the file C:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk as / 4. ubuntu happily boots I tried loading the kernel and booting from /tiger.img, but just got errors. anybody with or without a computer science degree have any idea? And please, don't delete my post and don't just tell me no - I REALLY want this to happen as this is the essence of hacking. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111018-install-tiger-alongside-vista-ubuntu-using-wubi/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezz Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 It would be cool if that would ever happened. But it installs on a folder in the NTSF drive, and for Ubuntu it slows it down, i dunno if you can even install osx on a NTSF drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111018-install-tiger-alongside-vista-ubuntu-using-wubi/#findComment-786757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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