LIJI Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Hey, I've been considering buying a Mac for a while and I wish trying out the OS for a while before I do. I've took the time and installed Mac OS X on VMWare but without networking and 10 Frames per Seconds graphics (Although each frame was Mac-ish-ly sexy!) didn't give me the chance of experiencing Mac OS X properly. I'd like installing Mac OS X as a secondary OS in addition to Windows XP which is already installed. Computer Spec: 1 GB Ram Intel Core 2 1.86 GHz *2 ATI Raedon x1300 Hard disk partitioning: Hard Disk 1: - 63.4 GB, Windows XP (NTFS) - 85.5 GB, Stuff (NTFS) Hard Disk 2: - 23.26 GB, More Stuff (NTFS) - 18.35 GB, Even More Stuff (NTFS) - 32.95 GB, Target Partition of Mac OS X. Currently formatted as NTFS but it is empty and can be reformatted as any filesystem at any time. Images I have downloaded: Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2].iso KALYWAY_LEO_10.5.1intel_SSE2_SSE3.zip I'd prefer installing Mac OS X 10.5 of course, but I'd be fine with 10.4.8. My questions are: Can I install Mac OS X on the third partition on my second drive without reformatting the other partitions? Is my ATI X1300 working on Mac OS X? It has been a nightmare getting it to work on Linux. In case I want to uninstall Mac OS X, is it as simple as restoring the XP MBR from the XP installation CD and reformatting the Mac OS X partition? Thanks in advance to anyone helping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slashandburn Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Yes you can, just make sure that you don't accidently erase the wrong partition, or to be on the safe side, physically dissconnect the windows disk so that you can't overwite it with the mac filesystem during the install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIJI Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 Thank you very much! I'll try it later today and report if I have succeeded or I had problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIJI Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 I've managed to boot into the CD and start the installation, but after about 2 minutes since the actual installation process it crashes(?) and shows the "Please Reboot" message. Any idea why? Edit: After changing some BIOS settings, as pointed by some guide, (http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/BIOS/1000560393) and trying again 2 times the installer seems to crash 15 minutes (first time) and 21 minutes (second time) before finishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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