Any OSx86 users out there?

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  1. Posts : 8,476
    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
       #11

    DarkNovaGundam said:
    Dinesh said:
    DarkNovaGundam said:

    Nope, v1.6 10.5.8 Lite Edition is, just use 1.4 though as it offers all the patches that it should. The lite edition is crap.
    I have a slow internet connection. It may take around 24 hrs to download the file. What say should i install it? i like Mac os. Can you also tell me how did you manage to dual boot it with Windows7 ? Did you have to do any thing out of the world?
    When you say pictures do you mean of the laptop running it or just a screenshot from within showing the 'about mac' and other things?

    If you have windows 7 installed already, shrink it down about 30gb (at least) and then make that empty 30gb space into a Fat32 or exFAT partition.

    During the install of iDeneb you'll need to go to the top bar (while running from disc) and click utilities or something, that will get you to 'disc utility'.

    When in that, click on that 30gb partition and 'erase disk' to a HFS+ (Journaled)
    i know the method of going thru disk utility and then formatting the partition to hfs+ journaled. my question is, once the installation of ideneb is finished, do you need to do something to dual boot or it already works fine? does win 7 shows up in that chameleon boot loader?

    I mean just general screenshots of the os, like the desktop, dock and such things.
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  2. Posts : 3,639
    Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04
    Thread Starter
       #12

    Dinesh said:
    DarkNovaGundam said:
    Dinesh said:
    I have a slow internet connection. It may take around 24 hrs to download the file. What say should i install it? i like Mac os. Can you also tell me how did you manage to dual boot it with Windows7 ? Did you have to do any thing out of the world?
    When you say pictures do you mean of the laptop running it or just a screenshot from within showing the 'about mac' and other things?

    If you have windows 7 installed already, shrink it down about 30gb (at least) and then make that empty 30gb space into a Fat32 or exFAT partition.

    During the install of iDeneb you'll need to go to the top bar (while running from disc) and click utilities or something, that will get you to 'disc utility'.

    When in that, click on that 30gb partition and 'erase disk' to a HFS+ (Journaled)
    i know the method of going thru disk utility and then formatting the partition to hfs+ journaled. my question is, once the installation of ideneb is finished, do you need to do something to dual boot or it already works fine? does win 7 shows up in that chameleon boot loader?

    I mean just general screenshots of the os, like the desktop, dock and such things.
    I'm currently booted into Windows but I'll pop onto OS X in a sec to grab the screenie.

    Do NOT use anything but iDenebs Default Bootloader, Chameleon at the moment eats Windows 7's MBR and its unrepairable.

    Chameleon team is currently looking into it.
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  3. Posts : 8,476
    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
       #13

    May be by next weekend, i will have ideneb 1.4 installed on my pc. But before that, i just want to keep things like Win7 dvd, a good backup and ideneb install guides handy....Just in case.
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  4. Posts : 3,639
    Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04
    Thread Starter
       #14

    Dinesh said:
    May be by next weekend, i will have ideneb 1.4 installed on my pc. But before that, i just want to keep things like Win7 dvd, a good backup and ideneb install guides handy....Just in case.
    Whatever floats your boat, feel free to PM me if you run into problems.

    I need to make a backup (full copy) of my OS X Leopard install before I attempt a Snow Leopard Install.
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    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #15

    So you're saying that OS X and W7 can be dual booted together without much trouble?

    I'd love to have a play with SL.
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  6. Posts : 8,476
    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
       #16

    I have heard that SL has much higher performance and stability.
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  7. Posts : 3,639
    Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04
    Thread Starter
       #17

    Bare Foot Kid said:
    So you're saying that OS X and W7 can be dual booted together without much trouble?

    I'd love to have a play with SL.
    Yes it does, I'm waiting for Chameloen 2 RC4 to come out as they mentioned that MBR devouring should be fixed in RC4 or the final release (should should be after RC4, or will be next instead of RC4).

    Dinesh said:
    I have heard that SL has much higher performance and stability.
    It still boots into a 32-bit kernel by default even on legit macs.
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    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #18

    If the MBR does get messed up will a repair install fix it?
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  9. Posts : 3,639
    Windows 7 Ultimate, OS X 10.7, Ubuntu 11.04
    Thread Starter
       #19

    Bare Foot Kid said:
    If the MBR does get messed up will a repair install fix it?
    At first people thought yes, but when it cme down to actually doing it people found out it didn't work.

    Oh and let me know if you want any other screenshots.

    Attachment 28813
    Last edited by Dark Nova Gamer; 15 Feb 2010 at 21:39.
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  10. Posts : 8,476
    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
       #20

    instead of repair install, bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /rebuildbcd can fix it.
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