sross01986 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Hello everyone, I am a noob to the community but I am currently in the research stage of my project. I recently watched the latest lifehacker video on how to build a hackintosh with new components. I found it informative but I already have a good solid desktop that is running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10. Here are some of my specs: Dell Inspiron 545s 1 SATA HDD @ 750GB @ 7200RPM 6 GB of Ram Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 I have a few questions right now. First would a partition on the HDD drive work so I could boot Snow Leopard with out having to install a second hard drive. Second is it easier just to have a second hdd for installation and running of the OS? Any advice is welcome. I am not too keen on adding a second hard drive because of the size of the desktop case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
termitn Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 there should be no problem about a tripleboot with only one HDD. I partitioned my hdd while Mac install in the GUID layout with 2 partitions (one in mac journaled, other in fat format). Quit mac install, bootet from windows 7 dvd, formated the fat partition to NTFS and installed it. After Win 7 Install i went back to Mac Os installation and after setup all i installed chameleon. Therefore i dont see a problem about a triple boot. just one more install to another partition. chameleon has no problems to handle this. Dont forget that there are many other steps for a proper install. Now i have Win7 and mac 10.6.6 running on my HDD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sross01986 Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 there should be no problem about a tripleboot with only one HDD. I partitioned my hdd while Mac install in the GUID layout with 2 partitions (one in mac journaled, other in fat format). Quit mac install, bootet from windows 7 dvd, formated the fat partition to NTFS and installed it. After Win 7 Install i went back to Mac Os installation and after setup all i installed chameleon. Therefore i dont see a problem about a triple boot. just one more install to another partition. chameleon has no problems to handle this. Dont forget that there are many other steps for a proper install. Now i have Win7 and mac 10.6.6 running on my HDD. I still have some questions about partitioning. I currently have Win 7 and Ubuntu already installed and I want to install SL. If I were to follow the lifehacker guide should I have the partition created before the installation of SL? Or could I create the partition during the actual installation of SL simular to linux installs? Also does the Snow Leopard disc have to be new. I have a few mac friends with update discs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Either / or It is definitely easier to maintain when the OS's are on separate drives but the actual install isn't a great deal different. If you have enough room and cash for another hard drive then go for 2 HD's. More space never hurt anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliveli123 Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 You cannot partition while SL setup. You need to have a partition for it beforehand that you'll format to HFS+ by the Disk Utility in setup. I recommend using Parted Magic distro for partitioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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