SUBMarcos Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Dell Inspiron 1100 Celeron 2.2GHz 1024 MB RAM Dual boot, OSx86 Tiger and Windows XP Pro SP1 This procedure worked for me on the 1st attempt to install OSx86 Tiger. This technique only uses Windows. There is NO need for you to know about bootloaders. Installation time; not longer than 20mins. EDIT: For installation using pure Windows OS; Prerequisites; 1. tiger-x86-flat.img (deadmoo's image = 1.29GB b2z-archive from t0rrents). Use Winrar 3.5+ 2. dd for windows (dd.exe) 3. aprox. 13 GB free space, in this fashion: 6.5Gb for deadmoo's image and the equivalent as "unpartitionated space" 4. Partition Magic 8 or any other similar application Goals (this is an overview); 1. Have tiger-x86-flat.img and dd.exe (along w/its dll) in the same folder 2. Use Windows start->run-> and type "cmd" 3. Use DOS commands to create an "af" partition which supports OSx86 Tiger 4. Use DOS to dd the image to the "af" partition 5. Be able to set the OSx86 partition as an "active partition" IMPORTANT!!! Follow this; 1. Get 6.5GB or more as unpartitioned space. 2. Run cmd 3. Use the following cmd session to accomodate to your own software. Unknow partition type means OSX type of partition. (NOTICE how volume6 and partition6 are related in my machine. Attempt to use it to your different partition number) - - C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\ObjectBar>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 1.0 Copyright © 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: PALETITA-SIHSBL DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 OEM 39 MB 32 KB Partition 2 Primary 9 GB 39 MB Partition 3 Extended 9 GB 9 GB Partition 4 Logical 7013 MB 9 GB Partition 5 Logical 2016 MB 16 GB DISKPART> create partition primary size=6660 id=af DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition. DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 OEM 39 MB 32 KB Partition 2 Primary 9 GB 39 MB Partition 3 Extended 9 GB 9 GB Partition 4 Logical 7013 MB 9 GB Partition 5 Logical 2016 MB 16 GB * Partition 6 Unknown 6668 MB 18 GB DISKPART> exit Leaving DiskPart... C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\ObjectBar>E: E:\>cd OSx86 Tiger E:\OSx86 Tiger>cd tiger-x86 E:\OSx86 Tiger\tiger-x86>dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\HarddiskVolume6 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress rawwrite dd for windows version 0.3. Written by John Newbigin <jn@it.swin.edu.au> This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details 6,441,878,016 199711+0 records in 199711+0 records out E:\OSx86 Tiger\tiger-x86> C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\ObjectBar>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 1.0 Copyright © 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: PALETITA-SIHSBL DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> select partition 6 DISKPART> active REBOOT, you should now see Darwin bootloader ----- The whole cmd process (installation of image), should take no longer than 30 mins. Apply Maxxus patches, and if you boot into a screen full of squares simply boot first in Windows, then restart your computer and boot into OSx86. That works for this computer. This computer (laptop) has good sound, good disk speed, fast window transitions, openGL, Quartz supported (I dont know what that means), fast spotlight (even gets resuts from Windows partitions). I will test video capabilties later. - - - Please leave your comments... these may really help somebody else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 I dont understand this really well. what is the point of Partition Magic 8 if you use disk part? You never really say. Also, when you start the computer what happens... is there a bootloader asking you to use OSX or XP? Sorry if these seems stupid, but I dont want to destroy my laptops hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vman Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 you need partition magic to make some unpartitioned space so you can create an HFS+ partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUBMarcos Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 Partition Magic to create unpartitioned space. Diskpart to create the HFS ("af") partition. Darwin bootlader gives the choice of booign from any partition on your HD even those that are not bootable; i.e. WinXP, OSx86, Data (not bootable since these are only a parttion for files). Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furri Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Partition Magic to create unpartitioned space.Diskpart to create the HFS ("af") partition. Darwin bootlader gives the choice of booign from any partition on your HD even those that are not bootable; i.e. WinXP, OSx86, Data (not bootable since these are only a parttion for files). Good luck Hi guys, Ignore, sorted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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