jonpb Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Hi, I have an old PowerPC with OSX 10.4.2 and I bought a retail Snow Leopard DVD. After reading various install guides, they all talk about first formatting your boot drive with the GUID partition table option. I do not have that as a listed option, the choices I have are: Apple Partition Scheme PC Partition Scheme Will one of these work? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203553-format-boot-drive-from-powerpc-1042/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0m30 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Hi, I have an old PowerPC with OSX 10.4.2 and I bought a retail Snow Leopard DVD. After reading various install guides, they all talk about first formatting your boot drive with the GUID partition table option. I do not have that as a listed option, the choices I have are: Apple Partition Scheme PC Partition Scheme Will one of these work? Thanks I don't believe you can do a retail install to anything but a GUID partition. If you have access to a windows or a linux box you can use a parted magic usb or cd live CD to create the GUID partition table. Use the gdisk command line utility not the gparted gui. If you want to skip all the Mac setup work and do a retail install directly from a windowz or linux box there is a guide posted on the Chameleon board Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203553-format-boot-drive-from-powerpc-1042/#findComment-1367728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Apple's installer includes a partitioning tool (Disk Utility), so you can run it during the installation process if you like. You need to select it from the menu bar fairly early in the process, but that's the way I recommend doing it. The reason is that Apple has some specific requirements for GPT partitions, and many non-Apple tools don't enforce these requirements. Certainly neither gdisk nor Parted/GParted does. Of course, you can create a conforming disk manually if you understand the requirements, but if you're partitioning a disk from scratch exclusively for OS X, you might as well use Apple's utility for the job. I've heard of a way to patch the retail installer so that it'll work on MBR disks, but I've not looked into this in any detail. I'm afraid I don't have a URL handy with more information, but I'm sure Googling will turn up something. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203553-format-boot-drive-from-powerpc-1042/#findComment-1367802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRobbie Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 10.4.11 has the GUID option. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203553-format-boot-drive-from-powerpc-1042/#findComment-1405755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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