Installing mac-osx after winxp

[coalex]

I have tried under vmware and appear to work good..

1) Install a partition manager as system commander (same partition as windows xp)

2) Save the MBR with the utility diskette provided by the program

3) with partition magic resize a existent partition (ntfs for exaple) and make space for mac osx (minimum 6gb) creating a empty partition (unformatted)

4) with dvd patched in the dvd drive boot the pc and when the finder appear launch the disk utility, individuate the empty partition created above and click over the button "erase" (in this mode you create a hfs+ partition)

5) continue with installation of the mac-osx system since reboot.

6) After the restart of the pc restore the mbr saved in point 2

7) restart the machine

8) add the new operating system to the list...

[KENNYB]

Sounds a little complicated. My technique:

1) WinXP already on first partition.

2) Changed logical second partition into a primary partition and formatted as fat32.

3) Changed type of second partition to AF. (probably not even necessary since i will be using diskutil anyway but my disk was already AF)

4) Booted OS X and used diskutil to format the partition to HFS+.

5) easy install.

6) add OS X to the WinXP boot loader menu. (chain0)

 

Step four is the most dangerous step.

[coalex]

my situation is different (1 pimary partition for dos, 1 primary and 1 logical for windows xp (system and documents) in primary drive..