adlai Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 So I'm about to embark on putting OS X on an older p4 computer. a 2ghz in fact (do I have to worry about chipset compatability? I think it's one of the older intel ones). I have 27 gb free on the 80 gb harddrive, so I figure I'll carve out 20gb for OS X, possibly in the future giving OS X all 80 gb of it. So, partition will go like this? 1. use partition magic to carve a 20 gb fat32 partition out of the 80gb NTFS partition 2. use the apple install disc to format that 20gb partition into HFS+ 3. install OS X! anything I need to know? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11732-the-partition-process/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
msdossys Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 make sure its a primary partition Also no need to format to fat32... u can leave it unformatted Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11732-the-partition-process/#findComment-73627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adlai Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 well, I also want it to be a dual-boot system. How can I make that happen? This is what I want: I want it set so that left alone it will automatically boot to either windows or os x, my choice. However, a certain key press during bootup will give me an option window. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11732-the-partition-process/#findComment-73689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackentangled Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 for noobness sake, just use acronis os selector, simple and fast. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11732-the-partition-process/#findComment-73704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adlai Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 okay so I'm prepping for the install. Now partition magic has an option that says "install another OS" The options are windows from 98 on, and Linux. So, would this work? 1. select "install another OS" in Partition Magic 2. tell it to create a partition for Linux. 3. create partition (btw, out of 27 gb free, it says that the max size of the partition is 18 gb... is that on purpose?) 4. reboot, access bios telling it to boot off of dvd-rom, install OS X from DVD rom onto new partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11732-the-partition-process/#findComment-73872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilnalomo Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 make sure its a primary partition Also no need to format to fat32... u can leave it unformatted i have dual boot with windows. i tried to use a primary partition initially for OSX, but when i format it into a MAC OSX extended(journaled) partition, it turned into a non-primary drive....i had to use acronis to make it a primary again... i dont know why... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11732-the-partition-process/#findComment-73915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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