Swaz Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 So I'll start by introducing myself, since I am new to these boards. My name is Bryan, 21 years old, going to school, etc... I'm on an HP laptop, AMD Athlon 3400+(SSE2), 60gb HD, 512 MB Ram, nVidia GeForce 4 64mb. I started by searching the boards for an answer, but couldn't find anything thus far, so here goes: When I first started trying to dual boot (well, the idea was to triple boot [Win XP, OS X 10.4.6, Fedora Core 6]) I created the partitions, and then screwed them up. So, I reformatted, and just created 1 partition for Mac, to see if I could get just that to work. I did the whole linux fdisk in rescue mode deal, but formatted by typing literally '0xaf' rather than just 'af'. I know, stupid right. I then installed OS X on this "empty" partition since it just read the 0 for formatting purposes. I noticed that when I did this install, it only took about an hour to an hour and a half. However, for obvious reasons, I could not boot from this, and also later realized that I had not set my partition to 'active' anyway. So, since this didn't work for me, and I wanted a working operating system, I just repartitioned again, setting up a 20gb NTFS for XP, 15gb af for OS X, 15gb for Fedora, and 5gb FAT32 so I could use it for all 3 OS's. I then got Windows back on and in working order. That is where I am now. Twice now I have tried to re-install OS X on the 15gb af partition. The first time, it did install, and I could boot alright from it, but the install took literally overnight which was a little unheard of. Also, the operating system itself was running at about 1/4 to 1/3 speed of XP, which was extraordinarily slow. But, not only was it operating slow, the system clock was just about as slow as the performance. So, I wiped that partition, and started over. I then tried today reinstalling OS X on the same partition, taking off all of the extra language packs and almost all printer drivers, and leaving on AMD basesystem and SSE2. This had already taken 2.5 hours and it wasn't even half done with the install. So, I aborted the install, and here I am. Any help at this point would be appreciated. I do have access to 10.4.7 if that is what it takes. Is this speed just something to expect with SSE2? Is my video card extremely incompatible, and I need to install the MacVidia drivers? I just don't know how to proceed from here. Thanks ahead of time. -Swaz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36810-excrutiatingly-slow-installrun/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Hi, this is the tutorial section and is not ment for questions, please try to post in the proper groups. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36810-excrutiatingly-slow-installrun/#findComment-261725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swaz Posted December 26, 2006 Author Share Posted December 26, 2006 Goodness. My fault. Mods can go ahead and delete this if they please, and I will post in the proper section. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36810-excrutiatingly-slow-installrun/#findComment-261807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 (edited) they already moved it for you to the righr place Edited December 26, 2006 by wow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36810-excrutiatingly-slow-installrun/#findComment-261987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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