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Hi I was getting ready to do retail leopard install with the intruction listed in the DS4 Sticky. Ran into trouble in the 1st step. Have 2 HDs One HD has Kalway on a 25gb partition. The second HD is 1 tb with 3 partitions. 100 gb for XP; 150 GB I made for Leopard; the remaining is a NTFS storage partition. Is it possible to install with this method on just a parition of HD, because when I went into disk utility for the following steps:

 

  1. Click on your target drive (or target drive/partition) in the left window
  2. Then look right and click on the Partition Tab
  3. Then choose Volume Scheme: 1 Partition (change if you know what your doing)
  4. Then fill in the Name with: Macintosh

I only get the partition option when I click on the whole HD. Is I click on any of the partitions I only have the option to install to erase and make the HD Mac OS Extended, can't pick GUID partition tables.

 

So then for this install do I need a Fresh HD just for MAC? Please advise. Thanks.

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Any one? Just a simple question. Do I need a fresh new HD for Leopard install via EFI/Chameleon or can I just install it on a partition of HD example: my TB WD HD that currently had 100 gb for XP; 600gb for storage and I made a 150gb partition for leopard install.

 

Only reason I want to make sure if because Leopard uses the 200 mb of space in front of an HD for booting. I want to make sure EFI or Chamleon doesn't accidentally mess up my current boot sector/structure if I try this install on a partitioned HD. Thanks. Any help will be very useful.

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