How to made a partition for mac osx whithen windows 7

[ayman.awartani]

hi every body,

 

This is a series of posing on how to get leopard ( Osx86 working )

Series #1

 

here is some problems come out to me while installing many copies of mac Osx86 while trying doing partition issue.

 

First of all i installed "Acronis Disk Directo" to make a slice of my HD just for mac.

i don't have enough space to do so by this program i could get 10GB free for installing.

using this application is just piece of cake you just need to :

• Create a new partition from right menu
  
• if you have a unused space use it. if not you have the option to use free space on other partitions (this what i did).
  
• and format it with to be active ( active mean primary partition [ only primary partition could have OS ] + active to boot from [ the only partition to load OS from it ] ).
  

Then we need to reboot and booting from Osx86 DVD

if it's not working just try to press f8 and boot using -v -f

and the problem still arise try using -v -f cpus=1

which means to use of two cpu's that you have and if not

try using busratio=4

this works with me when i try to install it on vmware.

 

now we are on Osx86 installation.

 

just get to upper menu and choose utilities -> disk utility

and choose the partition that we had made and try to erase ( choose HFS+ from combobox - the first one ) it

if you always get the same error when trying to erase it

or you just cant mount it

 

you have to get your hand dirty and do some kernel job

utilities -> Terminal

 

write down

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0

// 0 means that you are on first HD

print

//will show up your partitions and the one that have a star is the one that we would work in

//note this may damage your partitions and may you lost some data like so please be careful about it

//why we choose the one with a star because we just made it active in windows 7

//if you didn't do that then don't continue because mac list partition difference that windows

//and you may choose the wrong partition

//let say we have partition 3

setpid 3

AF

//now we mount the partition manually and made it HFS+

quit

 

 

now get back to utilities menu [ within iatkos v7 ] i have chamelon 2 hit it and choose the same HD and Partition above

this will make a GUI at start up to choose between windows 7 and leopard

 

now continue your job and don't forget to customize installation