v3rt Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 I decided finally to try out leopard on my intel pc it's an e6300 @2.8 with gigabyte s3 board. everything was great until i needed to select a partition... nothing works, i tried to setup unallocated space, or even a normal hfs+ partition from linux but the leopard install can't find either... the only partition it finds it's the windows partition that is ntfs (the first partition on the drive) i aslo tried to create random fat32 and ntfs (primary ofc) partition but the leopard cd can't find it either. it seems that when i hit the disk uttils it gives me the possibility to add a partition and on first look it looks like i can do it only from the free space i have on the disk, so my question is, if i create new partition from the disk uttils (on the installtion cd) it will use only the free space on my hdd, or will it use some space from the first partition on the disk aka windows ntfs partition? and does the install can see only the first partition on the disk? sry for bad english :s *also it takes about 10 minutes for the dvd to boot is it ok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vilution Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 Repartition the whole drive as MBR and then create your partitions for leopard and tiger or whatever. and yea it takes about 10 or 15 min to boot off the disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v3rt Posted November 30, 2007 Author Share Posted November 30, 2007 Is there some other solution without data loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vilution Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 how many partitions you have currently? and is your main hd partitioned as MBR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v3rt Posted November 30, 2007 Author Share Posted November 30, 2007 I have one windows ntfs, one linux ext, and swap, have space for one more primary partition and i have no idea if my hd partitioned as MBR, how can i check it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vilution Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 boot off the dvd and then run diskutility and right click on your hard drive and it will say under partition scheme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v3rt Posted November 30, 2007 Author Share Posted November 30, 2007 ok tnx, and is it possible to install it on second hdd (slave ide) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v3rt Posted November 30, 2007 Author Share Posted November 30, 2007 Now i have another problem, i tried to install it on a second hd, everything was ok it started to verify the cd, after it finished it started the installation and right at the start it says "installation failed " and my keyboard doesn't work either edit: I tried again but no luck it shows the "Installation failed" window and something about: can't locate data and files needed for installation. my system is e6300 gigabyte 965p-s3 1gb ram the hdd i'm trying to install on is some old 13gb ide drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vilution Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 You have to UNCHECK all of the packages in the customize option for it to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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