Dual boot Leopard Mac Osx and Windows Vista
Here is a complete guide to get a dual boot setup with Windows Vista and Leopard running side by side. Please note this is a complete tutorial and if followed exactly you should be running Leopard and Vista side by side without any problems.
Disclaimer : This Guide is for educational purposes only, I suggest you buy yourself a original Mac. Also please do not post links to the Torrent’s as they will be removed.
Well before we proceed with the guide, here is the stuff that you will need for a successful dual boot setup.
- Vista Already installed on your Primary Hard Disk.
- iATKOS v1.0 DVD. (Do not ask me where you can download this)
Windows Vista Boot DVD (Just incase something goes wrong)
Well now that you have everything ready, lets get started then. Please note this is going to take sometime so I suggest you have some Music playing near by and grab yourself a cup of coffee while you do this. Sit tight, here we go……….
- Install Vista on the First
Partition of your Hard Disk. I am not going to elaborate into How to install Windows, I hope everyone knows it. If you already have it installed then read on.. - Right click on My Computer and Click on Manage. Select Disk Management. Now Create a new Volume for OSX by shrinking an existing volume. You need atleast 5GB of space and the new volume should show up as Unallocated.
- Make sure that the
partition shows up as Unallocated, else repeat the previous step. - Now restart the machine and boot into the Leopard DVD that you burned using the iATKOS v1.0 DVD Image.
- Press F8 as the countdown begins and type -v at the prompt and hit enter.
- You should see
scrolling text on the screen now. If it stops anywhere then drop a comment and I’ll try to help you out. - After a while you should be looking at
the Leopard Installer. Follow the instructions on Screen. - Once the Loading Bar vanishes Select Utilities -> Disk Utility .
- Select the Volume you created previously and format it as
MAC OSX Journaled Extended. Once the formatting is done the volume is ready for installation. - Now Close Disk Utility and Select Utilities -> Darwin Boot. Type Y at the prompt.
- At the prompt when it asks for the Disk Number enter 0. For the
Partition Number if your Leopard Partition is 2nd on the disk, then enter 2 and so on. - Accept the following prompts and you should see a success prompt saying that so many block of data were written successfully.
- Now get back to
the Leopard Install Screen. Choose the partition that you made in the beginning and follow the instructions on screen. Please don’t select any patches etc during the installation, this is normally the reason for most failed installations. Just the plain install would do. - Once the Install is done, reboot with the DVD in the drive. Press F8 at Darwin Boot Loader and type -s and press enter.
- Execute the following commands :fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot - Now before the PC restarts remove the DVD. At this point you should be able to boot into Vista normally.Note: If you are unable to log into windows, because there is an error which says “winload.exe” correupted.! Relax. Just insert the
Windows VISTA boot DVD into the drive and restart. Click on “Repair computer” once you are inside the DVD and it will automatically detect if a problem exists and suggest “Repair and Restart”. Press the same, and remove the DVD once the PC is about to restart. You should now be able to log in to vista without any problem. - Now that we have almost everything
running fine, lets proceed with the dual boot setup. - Boot into Vista. Copy the chain0 file from
the Leopard DVD to C: - Open the “Command prompt” with “Elevated Admin” privileges from the Start Menu.
- Type the following into the promptbcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”
bcdedit /enum active
bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0In the first command type {current} as it is, literally..nothing else..just {current} with the brackets. In the 3rd command however, replace the {GUID} with the alphanumeric GUID you see in the enumerated list under MAC OS X. You can see this list on your terminal as soon as you type the 2nd command above.
- Close the Command Prompt and Restart Vista.
- You Should now be looking at a screen with two options to boot into
Mac OSX or Vista. - Select Mac Osx to see if you can boot into it. You should see the familiar Darwin boot Loading screen with the timer going down. If you dont do anything, then it counts to zero and again shows the menu screen with Vista and
MAC OSX options. Dont panic! Again select MAC OS X, and now as the timer counts down, Press F8. You would see a list of partitions on your disk with their names. Select the partition with MAC OSX installed by using up/down arrows and press ENTER. - Voila!! your Mac should be booting up as you read this..
See it was that simple. No more HFS+ and Blinking Cursor errors. Just follow this
guide step by step and you should be able to dual boot Windows Vista and Leopard in no time. If you have any questions just drop in a comment, I’ll reply at the earliest.For Drivers and Patches I suggest you look at the InsanelyMac Forums. This
guide would have been nearly impossible without :- Uphuck Forums
- InsanelyMac Forums
- OSX86 Wiki.
If you are looking to Install Leopard on an AMD based machine follow the instructions here to patch your iATKOS v1.0 Image. Special Thanks to I Am Nihilist
Also special thanks to dailyapps.net !
New Mac OS X Snow Leopard Beta Released, Run to the Torrents
A new version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard—labeled 10A335—has hit developers. Apple hasn't mentioned any new features or bug fixes, however. The Server version—which was released alongside—does come with an easier to use version of Podcast Producer, new spam mail filters in Mail Server, and other niceties.
IPTables: Filtering by MAC Address
If we want filter a MAC in our firewall, we can use IPTables to this. For example, if we want to filter a MAC like 00:12:8D:EE:6E:AB (Must type the MAC with this format -> HH:HH:HH:HH:HH:HH) and deny their access to our Firewall we can put type this:
iptables -A INPUT -m -mac --mac-source 00:12:8D:EE:6E:AB -j DROP
Also, we can use the ! operator, wich inverts the operation, for example, if we type:
iptables -A INPUT -m -mac --mac-source ! 00:12:8D:EE:6E:AB -j DROP
All the packets will be dropped, except the packets from 00:12:8D:EE:6E:AB MAC.
Squid Proxy Server Mac Address based filtering
Setting up ACL's based on MAC address
Open squid.conf:
# vi /etc/squid/squid.conf
Local acl, section and append ACL as follows:
acl macf1 arp mac-address
acl macf2 arp 00:11:22:33:44:55
http_access allow macf1
http_access allow macf2
http_access deny all
Save and close the file. Restart squid server:
# /etc/init.d/squid restart
Thanks to cyberciti.biz
Chrome 2.0 beta but no Linux version, yet
Google released a pre-beta version of its Chrome 2.0 browser late last week but has still not made a Linux or Mac version of the browser available.
The 2.0 version of the browser was released to developers and includes a number of new features including the begins of an extension strategy for the browser.
Senior Google staffers said, however, that Linux and Mac versions of the browser would only be made available later this year. CNet quotes Brian Rakowski, Chrome’s product manager, who said that the Mac and Linux versions of the browser were now at the “test shell” stage which meant that they could show web pages but are still in a very raw format.
Rakowski said that versions of Chrome for Linux and Mac would likely be made available by the middle of 2009.
Extensions
Chrome 2.0 pre-beta does include support for some extension scripts, which will pave the way for fully-fledged extensions in the near future. Extensions are among the most requested features from users and is a key part of the success of rival browser Firefox.
Other new features in version 2.0 of Chrome include autocomplete for web forms, full-page zoom, multiple browser profiles each with their own bookmarks and cookies, autoscroll using the mouse centre button and the ability to import bookmarks from the Google Bookmarks site.
Less obvious to users but key to Chrome 2.0 is the inclusion of a new version of the WebKit rendering engine. The new Chrome release uses WebKit 528.8, which is faster and supports features such as CSS canvas drawing for 2D shapes such as lines on maps or custom-generated charts.
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Hands on with Firefox’s mobile browser
A couple of weeks ago we wrote that a mobile edition of Firefox was expected within weeks. Well, here’s an alpha version of Fennec. We decided to give the little fox a spin to see what exactly the Firefox team had been up to over the past few months.
At this point Mozilla has only released an alpha version of Fennec, the name given to the mobile version of Firefox. And as such it is a little buggy, but many of the expected features are already in place and working.
Fennec right now is only available for a single mobile device, the Nokia 810 tablet, although a version is also available for testing on Linux, Mac and Windows. Of course the desktop version doesn’t do the touch screen capabilities any justice but for an idea of what to expect when Fennec does hit your mobile, read on.
Interface
The first thing when you open Fennec is the simple and clean layout. There is the address bar across the top of the screen and the rest of the space is dedicated to the browser.
The address bar is well implemented and like the desktop Firefox browser responds to partial words typed into the bar. Most often this based on your browsing history which is pulled up on the screen below. If none of those is your intended destination then hit enter and Fennec searches on Google by default.
The one thing on a mobile device you don’t want to do a lot of is typing so Fennec’s attention to detail in this area could of crucial importance.
With a page loaded in the browser window you can scale this up or down to fit either a piece of the website in the window or the entire page.
Where are the buttons?
The initial Fennec window is clean. So clean that you’re probably wondering where all the controls are. This is where the touch screen comes in. Swipe from the right to the left and you’ll see a basic set of tools appear. In the right hand bar you’ll find the back and forward buttons as well as the “star” which can be used to bookmark websites. Down at the base of the right bar you’ll see a cog icon which opens up the basic settings window.
Right at the top of the right hand bar you’ll see a jigsaw icon. Clicking on this brings up a familiar extensions manager. In the alpha release this is still pretty much empty although there are a handful of standard plugins - things like Adobe reader.
One of the nice features in Fennec is the horizontal movement. For example, one swipe to the left exposes the tool bar. Clicking on the settings button slides the browser window even further across. To get back, two swipes to the right closes those windows.
Tabbed browsing
The same is true of the left hand bar. Swipe across the screen from left to right and you’ll find Fennec’s version of tabbed browsing. In the left hand bar there are icons of the pages you already have open, as well as a “plus” icon to open a new “tab”. Helpfully, each “tab” has a close button attached to it so you can close any existing window without having to actually open it.
It is still early days with Fennec, but this alpha release makes it look very promising. The interface is clean and simple and with a touchscreen promises to be easy to use, but we’ll have to wait until we get our hands an a Nokia tablet before we can say for sure.
Give Fennec a spin and let us know what you think in the comments.
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