So now that I have this straightened out. Is there any thread or howto for configuring the Chameleon Bootloader? What I would like to do is change the time-out value and it possible have it display the 3 boot options.

So instead of the 3 second count down, have it go to 5 seconds while displaying the 3 partitions:

OSX
WINDOWS NTFS
LINUX

[ravenmsb]

Im not too familiar with this bootloader this is why I perfer grub I have more control over it I looked around too see if anyone had gotten rEFIt to work or configured any others in a manner I liked but I didn't really find anything so I choose to use Grub and modify it the way I wanted too cause I am more familar with it.

sorry I know this was no help but I don't know much about the Mac bootloader.

if you really don't like it you might try to get rEFIt to work it's a really neat bootloader program.

[elslash]

Please, somebody can translate to spanish this tutorial, We are many spanish that we want to know install xp and Leopard.

Thank you very much for all.

[davidj0525]

Originally Posted by ravenmsb

yep it just won't work from DVD if you don't have a mac to edit the settings and set up the USB install on you can install to a USB HDD just to have an OS X Enviornment to work with this is what I had to end up doing.

Peter,

Did you say you redid the whole process using the DVDs? If so, how were you able to install OSX without it wanting to wipe your other installs?

BTW thanks for the detailed guide! I'm just waiting until the end of the workday so I can go pick up a copy of OSX. I already have gparted, type11, and Ubuntu all burned to CDS and awaiting install.

-Dave

[pwborders]

I redid the entire process with DVD's except for OSX. Since OSX has to be modified to install to a MBR partitioned drive it was on a flash drive. I would think that if you have a real MAC handy you could make a modified install DVD since the modification is very small.

I didn't have any problems with OSX trying to overwrite anything since I had partitioned before I got into the OSX install. Also be sure and mark it's partition as active so it finds it correctly. After that I just selected the correct partition in disk utility and erased it to the correct format for the install and everything worked fine.

Pete B.

[kadachi]

pardon my ignorance, but how much space do each of the operating systems take? (wondering how much space would be left after all the effort)

[D'ohnut]

Hi, many thanks for the excellent guide. Got my mini this morning and have XP and Ubuntu installed and fully updated. Quite impressed with this little machine, faster than I was expecting so definitely a bonus. Upgraded the SSD to 64G and the ram to 2G.

I hit a snag though trying to get OSX installed. As I followed the guide, I have 4 partitions - OSX is to be installed on the 2nd. However, in the disk utility for the OSX installer, I've formatted the 2nd partition as MAC OS Extended and it has 20Gb free. However when quitting the disk util it shows the empty disk but has an exclamation mark beside it with a message 'you cannot install mac osx on this volume. to enable installation on this volume open disk utility... repartition as 'GUID partition table'. As far as I can see this will repartition the whole drive and lose the other 2 OS! I tried anyway to get a way around repartitioning the whole drive by selecting the physical disk and going into 'partition' but all the options are greyed out! How did you manage to get OSX past this to get OSX to install and finally use the Darwin boot menu to select the OS to boot from?

I need all the help I can get on Mac software, appreciate any pointers folks

Thanks, D'ohnut

[ravenmsb]

Originally Posted by kadachi

pardon my ignorance, but how much space do each of the operating systems take? (wondering how much space would be left after all the effort)

OSX takes the most It took about 15 GB?? or so I used the Slimmer programs and I got it down to about 12 GB on a 19.5 GB partition.

Windows XP if I recall was something like 4 GB I didn't use nlite or anything becasue I just didn't want to use it and I find that it can lead to issues. but 4 gb on a 19.5 GB Partition was not bad.

Ubuntu was under 4 GB mine comes in a about 4.5 GB with all my application that I use installed but this will vary depending on what you need. so idk around 20 gb for me total after slimming OSX a little gave me about 38 GB free on my 64 gb SSD (Which is more like 59 GB)

[ravenmsb]

Originally Posted by D'ohnut

Hi, many thanks for the excellent guide. Got my mini this morning and have XP and Ubuntu installed and fully updated. Quite impressed with this little machine, faster than I was expecting so definitely a bonus. Upgraded the SSD to 64G and the ram to 2G.

I hit a snag though trying to get OSX installed. As I followed the guide, I have 4 partitions - OSX is to be installed on the 2nd. However, in the disk utility for the OSX installer, I've formatted the 2nd partition as MAC OS Extended and it has 20Gb free. However when quitting the disk util it shows the empty disk but has an exclamation mark beside it with a message 'you cannot install mac osx on this volume. to enable installation on this volume open disk utility... repartition as 'GUID partition table'. As far as I can see this will repartition the whole drive and lose the other 2 OS! I tried anyway to get a way around repartitioning the whole drive by selecting the physical disk and going into 'partition' but all the options are greyed out! How did you manage to get OSX past this to get OSX to install and finally use the Darwin boot menu to select the OS to boot from?

I need all the help I can get on Mac software, appreciate any pointers folks

Thanks, D'ohnut

I think you are better off if you leave the OSX Partions as Raw and Unformatted I had some problems with this as well To get it working I just made my OSX partions Raw Unformatted in Gparted and then I formatted them with the OSX Installer. also make sure that you completed the steps for the modified installer that will allow for install to MBR, the dual boot method seems impossible without these modifications.

I personally find it much cleaner with Ubuntu as the 3rd installed OS but it's up to you it seems like extra work to add OSX to the boot loader but it only takes a min.

[pwborders]

Originally Posted by D'ohnut

... repartition as 'GUID partition table'. As far as I can see this will repartition the whole drive and lose the other 2 OS! I tried anyway to get a way around repartitioning the whole drive by selecting the physical disk and going into 'partition' but all the options are greyed out! How did you manage to get OSX past this to get OSX to install and finally use the Darwin boot menu to select the OS to boot from?

I need all the help I can get on Mac software, appreciate any pointers folks

Thanks, D'ohnut

I am not a MAC expert but I think you missed the modifications needed on the OSX install image to allow it to install to an MBR partitioned drive. See step three where I refer to the dual booting guide. In it are the details on how to modify the OSX install image. You will need another OSX machine to do this or you can od it the way the guide does by installing to an external drive first.

Pete B.