These are not the instructions needed to install, but
actually something that I wanted to do. Turns out, all the instructions which I
read online were for installing the Mac OSX Snow Leopard on a PC. This was for
dual booting the machine into Windows 7 (the existing installation) and Mac
OSX. Turns out, since the Lion version of Mac is pretty new, the guys at
Hackintosh are looking for ways to directly install from the thumb drive
provided by Apple. Till then, we have to install Snow Leopard and then update
to Lion as per the instructions given on the various site dedicated to this
topic.
So to go ahead with this, I was facing a lot of issues. The
main ones were that I already have Linux installed on a partition, which I wanted
OSX to replace. But I have also managed to somehow install the Grub bootloader
on the MBR rather than the linux drive itself and then use EasyBCD. So to fix
this, I first had to fix the Master Boot records. But then again, couldn’t do
that, because I needed a Windows boot drive for the same, something which I
thought I had, only to realise that the installation drive had indeed gone
corrupt. So now, I am downloading the Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit boot disk,
using which I will fix my boot drive.
After that is done, I have to a lot of time installing Mac
OSX snow leopard on the laptop, also probably increase the size of the
partition to 60GB from 40 and then finally move on to installing Lion from the
official media that I have bought. The wait is killing me…..
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