Im trying to install Leopard to my T400, and im not able to see the partition that i have formatted using Gparted Live for OS X. There are no locations to install the OS, but the hard drive is detected and Im able to get the installer to run without fault. I have tried the Disk Utility but it doesnt let me format the partition. I have tried erasing the partition but it still wont let me mount the drive.

Im using the iATKOS_v1.0i R2 image.

any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

K2

Also the darwin boot option that all the instructions mention is not there?

What it say when you try to format the partition?

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The Disk Utility will not give me the option to without reformattin the entire drive, which i cant do cause i have windows on another partition.

I formated it from GParted Live and that seemed to work just fine, but the installer still doesnt recognize the partition.

Any thoughts?

Can you take a photo of your screen with disk utility? can be camera phone anything, your the second person with this issue this year, and is so weird... i believe you guys are selecting the drive...

P.S. Check this post

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ill take a photo when I get home.

I looked at the other post. I have the ability to do that but wont that erase whats on the other partitions to create the new ones? I dont want to erase what is one the first partition that is why I dont want to do it like that, unless it doesnt erase whats on that partition?

I get it man, but I dont really know what are you doing, like I said your the second person with this issue, the second pic is to make partitions and of coz it will erases the entire disk, but if you already did a partition, just select it and erase it as Extended Journaled.

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ok, so i do the erase, but it still doesnt show any partition or destination when i get my drive up. As in when it asks me to select a place to install it, Its blank, i have no options.

Here is an image of what screen im stuck on:

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I took this image from another poster, but its the same screen im stuck on, I have the Partition already set up on my drive. I have Xp on the first part. The Disk Utility sees it.

Any ideas?

@.o you did this?

Use Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. In Disk Utility, Select your Partition, and format you should choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled). After partitioning, quit Disk Utility to return to the Leopard Installer.

Then Select your partition

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