pasj Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Hey guys First off, I'm totally incompetent at all of this. I have a good sense for computers and everything and I just need some help to get started because reading about many new things in here makes me dizzy I would like to able to dual boot my computer (laptop) with my current XP and Leopard mac. My first success criteria is to succesfully install and make it dual boot, the whole driver difficulties comes next. I have no idea of what I need to do first. I read about my partition needed to be FAT. Heres what i would think about doing. Formatting my drive to FAT. Installing first OS Installing second OS Make it dual-boot Tadaaaa!! Is it that simple? I guess not Did do a little searching in here for a similar newbie thread without finding one, guess i'm the only on in here Thanks in advance guys. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76921-starting-totally-from-scratch/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 I recommend first installing windows. Then install a bootloader. Then install Mac OS X, then make sure your boot loader see's both partitions. You could install a bootloader later, and if you cant get back into windows, changer your start-up disk in system prefs. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76921-starting-totally-from-scratch/#findComment-544745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jed717ph Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 If you want a idiot-proof way, try this.. 1) Install Windows XP (or vista) 2) Install Norton PartitionMagic then create a primary partition on your HD.. if you have two HD and you want to install Mac on another HD, disregard this.. 3) Install VMware Workstation then search the forum for VMware to Native thing. 4) Install Mac OS X on VMware 5) put the chain0 on the C: Drive then edit the boot.ini on your XP 6) voila.. just pm if you have questions.. im thinking that native installations are very risky. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76921-starting-totally-from-scratch/#findComment-545472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pasj Posted December 21, 2007 Author Share Posted December 21, 2007 Thanks guys I think i'll try to make 2 partitions of my harddrive and install it with the bootloader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76921-starting-totally-from-scratch/#findComment-545628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiJKa Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Good call, since I personally was unable to isntal Leopard via VMWare. Apparently, actually, a lot of people were having problems. There are threads for both a perfect install and dual-booting in OSX86 installation > OSX 10.5 Leopard forum. Search. Or browse It's just as easy in this case. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76921-starting-totally-from-scratch/#findComment-549053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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