Mebster Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 I'm going to format my drive completely and then wanted to partition it and then install OSX on the first partition and XP on the second. I know how to install XP first and then OSX - done that. But because it’s the other way round, I don't know how I can partition the blank drive and format partition 1 into HFS. So I have two questions here 1) What do I use to partition the blank drive? (Normally I do this using XP setup) 2) How do I format the partition I will install OSX on into a HFS type? (I installed OSX with dual boot before but there I had an OS and so used "disk part") Some help would be great! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16978-installing-osx-on-a-blank-drive-partition-and-format/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Use the Disk Utility in the OS X Installer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16978-installing-osx-on-a-blank-drive-partition-and-format/#findComment-109627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 With the Disk Utility in the OS X installer can I partition the whole drive and format the part I want to install OS X in as HFS? I assumed you couldn’t as if I could then don’t know why most people (as I did) used disk part and use "id=af". Thanks for your reply. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16978-installing-osx-on-a-blank-drive-partition-and-format/#findComment-109909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackenpisse Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Hi AcePlayer You will find the answer hier: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...F2003_method.29 http://www.profit42.com/guides.php?id=3 http://www.osx86project.org/ Driver for NVidia Graphic Card: http://macvidia.starchaser.org/ For German, look hier http://www.mac-and-win.de/index.php http://www.theparallax.com/wissen/os/macosx_intro.html http://www.macosxhints.ch/ Rene Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16978-installing-osx-on-a-blank-drive-partition-and-format/#findComment-110061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 Hi thanks for your help. It seems most guides require you to have a working operating system running. It seems using a Linux Live CD is the way to do it for me. Not sure what it is. Can someone verify that, that is my only method when starting from scratch? Also please can someone tell me what it does? The format, the partition, both? I just don't want to clear out my whole drive and start something I’m not sure how to complete. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16978-installing-osx-on-a-blank-drive-partition-and-format/#findComment-110111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackenpisse Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Hi thanks for your help. It seems most guides require you to have a working operating system running. It seems using a Linux Live CD is the way to do it for me. Not sure what it is. Can someone verify that, that is my only method when starting from scratch? Also please can someone tell me what it does? The format, the partition, both? I just don't want to clear out my whole drive and start something I’m not sure how to complete. Sorry for my english, I'm a French leaving in Germany. For myself I have two drive, one 240 GB with Xp and the second drive 200 GB for OSX and Linux Xandros. I had read that's better to install OSX on a separate drive as Windows XP. Look hier: http://www.tuaw.com/2005/09/01/my-day-in-t...talling-os-x86/ http://leshaunfossett.blogspot.com/2006/02...-x-on-your.html And at least read from the Guru himself http://www.maxxuss.tk/ I've made many different installations (Maybe 10 times or more) without problems. All installations with DVD Version 10.4.5 and later 10.4.6. You can get it in usenet or Torrent. Search with google. They are all approx. 4.7 GB. First: it's may be better to invest 100 $ for a second drive. Before you get problems with windows? Because if OSX overwrite your mbr then "rien ne va plus!". I have two drives 1 x 240 GB and 1 x 200 GB all SATA: First install XP and create 3 partitions on the second Drive. a) 1 x 60 GB for XP and dif. programs (NTFS) Datas could be save to c) FAT32. 1 x 5 GB for XP swapfile (NTFS) It's better if you put it on a separate partition. c) 1 x 50 GB for Backup as FAT32. c) 1 x the 125 GB for DATA as Fat32 (can be read and write from any system!!!). Before installing windows XP I've changed the bios so that the second drive (Physical) will be the first in bios. After installing windows I have created the partitions on the second drive (under windows with diskpart) d) 1 x 60 GB for OSX System and Programs e) 1 x 80 GB for Data's as FAT32 can be read and write fom Windows, OSX and Linux. f) 1 x 55 GB for Linux system and Programs g) 1 x 5 GB for the Swapfile of Linux (2GB is normally enough) Then I've change again the bios start according the Physical state (meaning the one for OSX as first) Then I've made the installation according the following links http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/202/42/1/1/ The advantage for me is: In Bios starting with Disk N°2 (The one with XP): I'm starting thru Lilo boot loader (Linux) and have the choice to go to Linux or XP. If I choice XP, the windows bootloader is starting and give me the choice to go to XP or OSX or If I set the Disk N°1 as the First drive (Mac OSX drive) then I can start OSX86 directly. ( If it don't start you can fix the problem, under windows with Diskpart > Active, this correct the mbr of the disk) It seams to be complicated but believe me, I've made many try in modify the kernel or drivers Thanks this constellation I don't need any more to install every things new. Hope this will help you. Rene. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16978-installing-osx-on-a-blank-drive-partition-and-format/#findComment-110237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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