Post a pic of your Hackinthosh

Discussion in 'Mac & OS X' started by dimdig23, Jul 24, 2008.

  1. d00m42 Member

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    ^^^ Nice eraser, that looks pretty awesome!

    I actually just finished backing up my media files, and am about to *attempt* to move my media partition on my 2nd hard drive to the end of that hard drive and create a small (4-5gb) partition at the front of the drive (so it's bootable). If that goes well then I will either install XP or Vista on the partition and use it to play all of those PC games that I am starting to get withdrawal from since I've been using my PC as a Hackintosh full on for the past 3 months or so lol...

    Does anyone know if it would be better to either:

    A: set it up so i have to select the drive i want to boot from manually separating the bootloaders
    B: use the Vista bootloader
    C: use the Darwin bootloader
  2. eraserhead New Member

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    You probably should back up your entire Leopard install with Time Machine in case anything goes wrong with the partitions you can easily recover.

    I have a 100G HD split....60G Vista, 40G Leo, and started with a clean install of each which left me exactly 32G on each partition after both were installed.

    I use the Vista Bootloader, as the guide I was using walked me through it that way, plus I feel more comfortable with that incase anything goes wrong with the OS X partition. In my mind you don't want to screw something up on Leo and then not be able to even boot into Vista...but I guess that's what a Linux boot disk is for.

    The only downside is when using the Vista Bootloader, it sends you into the Darwin Bootloader when choosing your OS X partition...so you go through both anyway. Its not a big deal though.
  3. d00m42 Member

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    I was expecting to have to go through Darwin anyway but that's no big deal. I actually have a time machine backup as well, but it doesn't back up my secondary drive which I use for media, only my system drive. My main problem is that you can't resize HFS+ partitions : ( Because of this, I can't make my Leopard partition on my System drive smaller so I can have Vista and Leopard on the same drive. I am not sure if it will work to dual boot Leo on one drive and XP on a partition of another.
  4. eraserhead New Member

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    LOL wasn't it you who told me not to start messing with resizing partitions :p

    IMO it would be easier to backup and start fresh..but good luck either way...

    Here's my latest and greatest :D

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  5. tipii New Member

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    What cluster size should i make a 25 gb Partition.
  6. mrfajita New Member

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    well my Hacbook wont run leopard unfortunately...
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    ...anyone here know what model a jMac is??
  7. Rembo New Member

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    Help.

    I no this is the wrong thread to be posting in, But does any1 no where i can find the myspace ipod touch music player ? Please Help. :)