Installing/Booting Another OS

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    wilvo

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    Re: Dual Boot Leopard/XP Tutorial

    Anyone having problems with dropped wireless connections. I've replaced the stock wureless card with a Dell 1490 and installed the drivers. No problems under Leopard but its dropping the connection in Windows every few minutes. I have disabled power saving for the card with no effect.
     
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    wilvo

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    Its a bug in SP1 that makes it drop the connection. If you go in to wireless properties you hsvr to untick 'enable authentication for this network'
     
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    zakfontaine

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    Re: Dual Boot Leopard/XP Tutorial

    Thanks for the advice. My 1490 Just came in my new One. I'm glad to hear it works well with leopard.
     
    zakfontaine, Sep 3, 2008
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    fletch33

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    just came in your new One? you mean it was that way from Acer? that would be nice to know if i sell this one on the future.
     
    fletch33, Sep 3, 2008
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    zakfontaine

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    Whoops...I wish..lol I meant to say came in for my new One. Sorry about that.
     
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    Re: Dual Boot Leopard/XP Tutorial

    well .. mega frustration I keep getting HFS+ partition error on boot??

    Any ideas?

    please?
     
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    zakfontaine

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    Re: Dual Boot Leopard/XP Tutorial

    if reinstalling your bootloader didn't work; then I'd guess your only other option is reinstalling os x. I've never tried a dual boot with vista, so I'm not sure what has happened here.
     
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    zakfontaine

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    Ok, it is a problem with vista's own bootloader. Here is a solution I found on insanely mac. Full thread ----> http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=39253

     
    zakfontaine, Sep 3, 2008
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    OS X and VMWare?

    Has anyone tried running OS X in VMWare under XP or Vista?

    I am thinking it might be easier to install and configure, but also might be very, very slow.
     
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    Re: OS X and VMWare?

    not tried it but i owuld guess you need another very in there
    Rory
     
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    It unable to install in VMWare I try with Kalyway
     
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    Leopard / Ubuntu Dual Boot Instructions

    Hello All,

    Names Dave, Im a Linux/Mac Sysadmin with lots of time invested in OSx86. I figured some might like to see how I setup Dual Boot Ubuntu / Leopard on my Aspire One.

    btw i have a 120gb blue aspireone with 1.5gb of ram and a dell 1490 wifi card

    1. I first installed with iAtkos v4i. (as per the instructions here).
    2. I then used Disk Utility to repartition my GUID HD to 2 60gb Partitions.
    3. I then booted into Ubuntu installed (on a usb stick, created using unetbootin)
    4. I repartitioned the Second Partition on my 120 to be 3GB of Swap and the Rest ext3, installing grub to the main partition
    a. This will break the mac booting at this point.
    5. I then downloaded chameleon and put the file boot in /boot/grub/ on the ext3 partition as /boot/grub/boot_osx
    6. Lastly I set my grub menu.lst file to add Mac with the following lines (note hd0,3 may be different on your system depending on your partition layout and boot_osx is just boot renamed to boot_osx for clarity)
    title Mac OSX
    root (hd0,3)
    kernel /boot/boot_osx
    boot


    If anyone wants more specific instructions please email me at dfiore hyphen aspireoneusers at davefiore dot com . I will be glad to help out.
     
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    rory

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    Re: Leopard / Ubuntu Dual Boot Instructions

    how did you repartition it after installing. All i can do with disk utiltiy in terms of partitioning is erase the whole drive and start over
    Rory
     
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    Re: Leopard / Ubuntu Dual Boot Instructions

    you can resize the partition if its guid (click and drag lower right hand corner), when thats done there will be free space to create a new partition
     
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    rory

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    Oh thank you
    I thought I had done it somehow before but had no idea how
    need MBR these days htough because dual boot windows and OS X
     
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    Re: Leopard / Ubuntu Dual Boot Instructions

    im not sure that you need mbr for windows.i know of people dual booting with guid on other whitebox HW. search insanelymac.com for more info.
     
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    i am combining the multiple threads on installing/booting another OS along side OSX.

    please try to keep all information or questions in this thread.

    thanks
     
    fletch33, Sep 10, 2008
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    rory

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    thought you did that...
     
    rory, Sep 10, 2008
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    Re: Leopard / Ubuntu Dual Boot Instructions

    So, if I Ghost my XP install to put into place later... Then install OSX via the iATKOS installer and just format it all as one drive (and as GUID), I can use Disk Utility to non-destructively shrink the OS X partition and add in a new partition for XP? (Then Ghost the XP back on) Does XP need to be on the first partition or can it be on the 2nd partition? Would I need a bootloader still?

    Sorry for the silly questions. Even though I have been using computers and Macs since 1989, this is foreign to me. Just want to make sure I totally understand before I spend 2 days in tech hell again like this past weekend :D
     
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    dfiore

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    you should be able to ghost and replace, but you will still need a bootloader. I recommend ghosting, booting off the mac dvd, repartitionting to guid 2 partitions, then replace your xp image, then install mac. Thus the mac install will also handle the bootloader install
     
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