lnkprk114 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 So i'm getting ready to do the iAtkos 1.0i installation of leopard. I've partitioned my drive (20 gig partition labelled (F:)), have downloaded the .ISO (took nearly 4 days...) and have burned that ISO to a disk using CDburnerXP. I'm just a little hesitant to install the OS because I really..erm...really don't want to lose my hold on Vista. I might just be a little nervous because of all the horror i've gone through with losing OS's (for blatantly stupid reasons) in the past. I would like to install leopard and dual boot it with Vista, but I feel like the way i'd *like* to do it is a bit more romantic and simple than it really is. I kinda invisioned popping the disk in, booting off of it and immedaitely having the installer ask me "Where would you like us to install leopard to, bud? C or F? take your time-don't worry about it!". I'd go through the installation (using F ((the partioned drive) of course), would play around and then restart my computer. Then i'd be able to pick whether I want to boot off of C or F, and all would be fine and dandy in the worlds of Vista and Leopard. Sadly i think i'm a bit mistaken, and theres more to it than that...is there? I'm sorry if what i'm asking for his been stated several hundred times...just so nervous Thanks guys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77274-little-scared/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Paladin Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 My recommendation would be NOT to use your "current" hard drive. Get another one and play with installing on it. The only way I would ever install this to a drive with my "working" system would be to make clone of that drive first and the test install on the cloned hard drive. There is a fair bit of a learning curve to all this so be prepared to spend time figuring it all out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77274-little-scared/#findComment-546375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnkprk114 Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 Hmm I see. If only I had a spare hard drive laying around...So basically-don't take the risk? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77274-little-scared/#findComment-546382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moto211 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 dual booting leopard and vista on one drive can be done and its not all that dangerous if you know what you are doing. my recommendation would be to get a really cheap IDE drive, put it an external enclosure and use that to play around with. this is the method that i'm using and its great. i can play around with leopard all i want and as long as a unplug my internal drive before performing any installs and stuff, there's nothing to worry about. its actually a really good setup...if my external drive is turned on, then my computer boots into leopard, if its turned off, then my computer will boot into vista. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77274-little-scared/#findComment-546434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibrudiiv Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Well, what I would recommend is to format your F: as FAT32. Leopard's installer's Disk Utility will show the FAT32 partition and allow you to format it to a Mac OS Extended Journaled partition. Follow the readme / install instructions on setting up EFI (over at the uphuck forums) and if you do everything correctly, the Darwin Bootloader should list Windows Vista as a foreign OS to boot. I, however, have not tried this with Windows Vista, only with XP. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77274-little-scared/#findComment-546435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boot Camp Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 From my experience: Vista has had some problems running after installing Leopard on a partitioned hard drive and sometimes needs a fixup-install. I'd wait for a spare. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77274-little-scared/#findComment-546439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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