Making multiboot (OSX Leopard+Vista+Linux+a partition FAT32) on MacIntel ?
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Re: Making multiboot (OSX Leopard+Vista+Linux+a partition FAT32) on MacIntel ?
Posted 16 years 11 months ago-
Oooh ... So much lovers of virtualisation ...
Anyway, I wasn't able to wait anymore ... I just have bought an hard drive one hour ago and will try the tutorial this night.
If it is not good way of have multi-OS ... at least it is a good entertainmnent.
I will give you some news in the coming days.
Hope it will be a sucess
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Re: Making multiboot (OSX Leopard+Vista+Linux+a partition FAT32) on MacIntel ?
Posted 16 years 11 months ago-
vmware is very very cool for running many instances of various OS.
Been using it for years and I highly recommend it. Like Andy said it's sooo much faster than creating and setting up all your various drive partitions, boot manager, etc. and you can also share all your systems resources.
One of the problems you will eventually face multi-booting is getting tired some time when your creating/resizing/moving partitions and accidently wiping out something important... :'(
Being able to pause something your doing within one system and switch to another and be able to switch back again is so much easier than saving/rebooting/switching then go back and do it all again...
Yikes! that was a long rambling about VMWARE! - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Re: Making multiboot (OSX Leopard+Vista+Linux+a partition FAT32) on MacIntel ?
Posted 16 years 11 months ago-
Some news from France ... ;D
After a fun night of blue screens and sliders I have almost succeded.
For the moment I have Mac OSX + Vista Businness 64 Bits + Windows XP Pro + 1 Partrition Fat32.
I just have had a problem to install Ubuntu 64 Bits. I believe I made a mistake about mount points ... or something about the partitions.
I have also a little problem of Mac drivers for Vista, the graphic card is not well fonctionning, I cannot use Aero for example. I guess Mac has not developped their drivers for the version 64 bits of Vista.
I will read a bit Ubuntu documentation and will try again soon.
And ... about WMWare I will perhaps be able to use it after but I will also have the possibility to run these OS in native mode.
At least I hope regarding all the good comments about this soft. - Last Edit: 16 years 11 months ago by Youyou.
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Re: Making multiboot (OSX Leopard+Vista+Linux+a partition FAT32) on MacIntel ?
Posted 16 years 11 months ago- I think the driver situation is not great for vista 64bit (xp 64bit too for that matter). The mac uses a standard graphic chipset so you might want to try searching for the 64bit driver for the chipset directly.
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Re: Making multiboot (OSX Leopard+Vista+Linux+a partition FAT32) on MacIntel ?
Posted 16 years 11 months ago- If anyone is thinking of virtualization, and backup is important, you should consider not using bootcamp. Backing up a "pure" virtual image/machine is a piece of cake with something like Carbon Copy Cloner as it's just another file in OS X. I tried backing up a bootcamp partition and it bacame a major headache trying Ghost, Winclone, Netrestore etc. Like Youyou, I think my problems came about as I had lots of different partitions. Something to think about if you keep important files on the other OSes. ::I::
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Re: Making multiboot (OSX Leopard+Vista+Linux+a partition FAT32) on MacIntel ?
Posted 16 years 11 months ago-
Andy Miller wrote:
Youyou, i strongly suggest using OS X as your base OS then running VMWare Fusion to run your other OS's.
As always, I must recognize that the Master Chief was right (as well as all the others which have kindly answered my post).
Virtualisation is very nice. One of my professor has explained to me how that works and it is really interessant ... I was not knowing some things of stuff was done. I have also makes some tests and I lost very few performance.
I have also realise that Vista is a total abberation !
ihadmeavision wrote:If anyone is thinking of virtualization, and backup is important, you should consider not using bootcamp. Backing up a "pure" virtual image/machine is a piece of cake with something like Carbon Copy Cloner as it's just another file in OS X.
You're right.
Actually I have decided to use Wmware only (not Wmware on a bootcamp partition).
Finally ... I begin to have some difficulties to understand how MS can keep solding some OS because MacOSX as well as all UNIX based OS are so much performant.
An exemple ... open the Activity Monitor, open another window, shake it and observe the evolution of the Processor use:- Under Leopard nothing disturb the processor
- Under XP, processors can reach 50% of activity (just for moving a window!)
- Under Vista, it is again more ... ???
Explication is that Windows has not still corrected a bad heritage that UNIX has corrected 8 years ago. On UNIX the graphisms are dedicated to the graphic card and there are very less routines invoqued.
Vista is a Joke I suppose ;D
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Re: Making multiboot (OSX Leopard+Vista+Linux+a partition FAT32) on MacIntel ?
Posted 16 years 11 months ago-
Youyou wrote:
Vista is a Joke I suppose ;D
I use Parallels with Vista and it was pretty sad until yesterday. I was afflicted like so many with the problem of it crashing explorer (equivalent of the Mac's finder) when I tried to copy large files over the network. I had to resort to buying Directory Opus in order to bypass Vista explorer. They now have a Vista SP1 RC out which you first have to download a cmd script which will tell it that it's ok to install the Service pack. Then it's continually hitting the check for updates links in Windows Update. It keeps telling you that all software is up to date, but if you keep asking like a drunken monkey, the updates will finally show up. It also takes forever to install. But thank god the copying large files bug is squashed or I would have had to revert to XP for the Virtualization since I'm not a big fan of Directory Opus. ::I::
Update: I just tried to boot off my Bootcamp partition. SP1 RC hosed my ability to boot natively into Windows and I can't use Parallels anymore. I'm going back to XP and trying VMware as Parallels changes the boot.ini file and that may also have something to do with it. Does anyone know if VMware also changes the boot.ini file at startup? There goes another 8 hours down the toilet... >
Udated 2 (for whoever might be interested): I managed to restore to a previous state without SP1 RC and got everything working again. I switched to VMware instead of Parallels and the initial slow copying bug does not show up. So it was a Parallels problem for me and VMware seems to be the one to use. Now if I'm smart enough, I'll also wait for the final SP1. - Last Edit: 16 years 11 months ago by .
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