winlinmac12 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Hello. This is my first post and I am...an OSX noobie of sorts and know very little about the various methods of using OSx86. >_< I have an HP laptop with 2 Hard drives (the D-drive a 12Gb backup drive). It has an AMD TurionX2 64 dual processors and 4gigs of RAM. I currently have Ubuntu(The linux distro) installed and running on the D-Drive while Vista Home premium 64bit is the primary OS, which is on the C-drive. My question is this: Is it possible, and if so, how, to install some version of OSX86 on the secondary hard-drive...like I did with Ubuntu(using Wubi) and still keep Vista 64bit on the primary hard-drive. I am very interested in trying out the OSX86 system so any and all help is welcome. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/162650-dual-boot-from-secondary-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Yes, just select the external drive in the installer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/162650-dual-boot-from-secondary-hdd/#findComment-1136346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
winlinmac12 Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 Yes, just select the external drive in the installer. Thanks but I gathered that much...I don't know how to begin this process though...(where get the files, how to begin installation, required programs, etc...) Sorry. again...I am a noob at all this. What installer? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/162650-dual-boot-from-secondary-hdd/#findComment-1136368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 The Apple OS X installer. I think you should pay a visit to the OSX86 Wiki. Link is at the top right. ..and this extremely helpful site: http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/162650-dual-boot-from-secondary-hdd/#findComment-1136377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
winlinmac12 Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 The Apple OS X installer. I think you should pay a visit to the OSX86 Wiki. Link is at the top right. ..and this extremely helpful site: http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/ Thanks. Only thing is...when I check the wiki, under compatible portable computers, the closest one I can find to my HP is the Pavillion 9700t...I have a 9700 without the (t) bit. On apple2pc, it worried since it doesn't mention AMD processors...only Intel. Can the OS actually fit on 12 gigs? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/162650-dual-boot-from-secondary-hdd/#findComment-1136397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I put the links for you to go and read up on the basics. Don't worry so much about your AMD CPU, as long as you use the Voodoo Kernel which has built-in opcode patching, the install procedure is the same as it is for older Intel CPUs like the Pentium 4 and Ds, that can't run the original Apple Kernel either. Any 10.5.6 hackintosh DVD should have this kernel, and most 10.5.5 DVDs have it too. I don't know what's the difference between 9700 and 9700t. If you're interested, go look up the specs of both and compare. Maybe it's not so different from yours. You can probably get away with 12 gigs but rest assured it'll fill up quickly. OSX retail comes on a dual layer DVD and that's compressed data, so after install (uncompressed data) there won't be much space left to do anything else. You can use some apps like 'Leopard Cache Cleaner' to fee up some space by deleting unneeded language files and stuff though, and the DVD also has Apple XCode on it which you don't have to install. The Hackintosh distributions are cut down to fit on a single layer DVD but still after installing I guess it would be closer to double that, around 6-8 GB. I've never actually looked at how much space the OS takes after install so that's a guess. I think you can get away with it but there won't be much space left to install additional programs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/162650-dual-boot-from-secondary-hdd/#findComment-1136408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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