nickll9009 Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Ok so long story short - My cd/dvd drive is broken, and all I have on my HDD is Ubuntu v. 8.10 I want to know if I make a new partition ( Say, 4 GB ) and extract the contents of the Kalyway 10.5.2 ISO to it, and boot off of it, will it act as an install disk so I can install OS X to the main partition? If so how would/what should I - What should I use as the filesystem for the Install disk partition? How do I extract the ISO? How do I mark the partition as bootable? And, how do I boot the partition? Any help, is MUCH appreciated!!! P.S. - Remember I am on Ubuntu 8.10 Hardy Heron! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116483-is-this-possible/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 You'll have a hard time partitioning your hard drive whilst running your OS off it =\ Do you have a USB Drive you can boot from? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116483-is-this-possible/#findComment-824635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickll9009 Posted July 19, 2008 Author Share Posted July 19, 2008 All I brought was a 1 GB flash drive and not really - you can use gparted while running linux For the install disk partition what filesystem should I use? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116483-is-this-possible/#findComment-824647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I know you can run it, but can you resize the partition it's running from was my concern... but as for the DVD Installers, there's generally a small boot partition (Fat32, I believe), and the rest is HFS+ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116483-is-this-possible/#findComment-824648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickll9009 Posted July 19, 2008 Author Share Posted July 19, 2008 I go to add a new partition but- the button is greyed out, why? Anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116483-is-this-possible/#findComment-824655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickll9009 Posted July 19, 2008 Author Share Posted July 19, 2008 Anyone???? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116483-is-this-possible/#findComment-824698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysick Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 wont work, someone said that the leopard image has about 200 mb that is set for efi to boot from, not the bios. So your bios wouldn't understand to boot from that drive. Unless it was a real mac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116483-is-this-possible/#findComment-824761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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