onesojourner Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I just got leopard installed on my machine. I did the flat image install from a windows drive. I would like to move my windows install over to the same drive as leopard and also install ubuntu. My leopard install will most likely never go online. I see that using boot camp wont work with a hackintosh so I am open to suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS8 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 grub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onesojourner Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 ok let me go into more detail and maybe you guys can tell me the best way to get there. I have tw0 hdds. I have windows installed on the 160 gig ide drive I would like to wipe that drive and just use it as storage. The second drive is sata. I have leopard installed to the first 15 gig partition. Then I have a 25 gig partition for windows. The 3rd partition is 30 gigs for ubuntu. The 4th partition is 400 gigs and I want to use that for storage. Right now I am booting between windows and leopard by switching the primary drive in the bios. should I install windows next and then install ubuntu? will grub find my leopard install and my windows install? I just don't want to break my leopard install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brlock Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 just use grub, it comes with ubuntu. install it last and than edit the menu.lst file to add both windows and leo partitions if they r not detected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onesojourner Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 alright thanks I will give it a shot and report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raulb Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I have the same setup but configured differently, the easiest way to do it is to use EasyBCD. Check out neosmart.net and the forums to get going fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onesojourner Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 ok I am up and running. I used an xp cd to delete my windows install on the ide drive and I left it with no partitions. Then I went ahead and installed xp on the 25 gig partition on the sata drive. Finally I installed ubuntu and a swap directory on the 35 gigs of the drive and I used the rest of the drive for storage. The default grub did not detect my leopard install so I had to add it manually. these are the steps I took sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst then I scrolled to the bottom and copied the XP grub entry and changed: title OSX86 Leopard root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 I saved the file and rebooted and all 3 of my OSes are working great. thanks for all the help and hopefully some one will find this thread useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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