Question - as Vista comes pre-installed on the Asus G1S - do I have to wipe the hard disk completely or do I just free up 10Gb+ on another partition?
And if the latter is the case - can I dual boot?
I understand your situation that you want to keep your existing Vista. This was my first guide how to install Leopard on Asus G1S with blank HD.
Currently I am trying to get dual boot with Leopard and XP. I suggest that you read dual boot guides from [http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_Guides].
If you use Gparted (I used ubuntu live cd) to resize your existing partitions you maybe have to repair vista [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392].
Don't forget to backup all important data.
When you combine my guide how to install Leopard and dual boot guides found from link above you may succeed to get your dual boot working.
The cornerstone of my guide is how to replace kexts and what drivers I advise you to install in Leopard.
If you stuck with some problem share it with us and I'll try to help you.
Hope that we hear from your attempt.
Hey everyone!!! I have succesfully instullied Mac OS Leo to my G1S and wanna say that I afraid dual boot with XP or Vista is not possible `cos that operational systems is principly different in their philosophy, but may be I dont know something, guys did anybody flash the lamps on Asus G1S with MAC Leo. thanks
hey.
it is possible to install mac and vista. i have vista ultimate 32 and kalyway 10.5.1 live running.
i used the first guide from this list:
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_Guides#10.5.1_Guides
sadly its offline now.
you can also read this one (the 4th of the list):
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u can use whichever install-dvd u want, important are the first 2 steps and the last steps (partitioning the hdd with vista and configuring BCD).
if u don't want to uninstall vista and u get in trouble with reallocating diskspace (shrinking and creating new partition), use this software:
disk defrag. u can get a demo, and let it defrag ur drives. after i did that a few times (2-3), i've been able to create the new partition in vista.
good luck, it works for me. but i don't use mac os alot, due to too many things that aren't working (sleep, hibernate, only one core (afraid of installing modded bios),…)
cYa