Formatting Hard Drive Before Installing?

**skunizzi** · 03-28-2009 05:26 AM

Do I need to format my Hard drive if I wish to install Kalyway on it first, or do I format only after I finish the installation?

Just asking becase I tried it a few times with different versions and it always stops and I'm thinking its the harddrive.

Any advice here?

Thanks

**blackjer** · 03-28-2009 08:12 AM

Format, then install.

Formatting after installation will remove all data from the drive.

**icchansan** · 03-30-2009 05:54 PM

You have to format your HDD as Extended Journaled, with disk utility in the utilities menu, try that and report back if it work

**skunizzi** · 03-31-2009 03:22 PM

Guys,

How can I format my new hard drive if I can't even access the utilities?

When I boot from the CD-ROM it goes right into the install and then fails and stops. So I never get to see the utilities. Am I missing something here?

Thanks

S

**skunizzi** · 03-31-2009 03:33 PM

I was told that since I am installing Kalyway on a brand new hard drive and not on a duel boot system, I would need to format my HD as Extended Journaled first before trying to install Kalyway.

Can someone please tell me how I can do this? I haven't ever formatted a mac HD before and I don't know what utilites I need to do this.

Please advise.

Thanks

S

**icchansan** · 03-31-2009 05:36 PM

Dont need to open another thread, and yes you have to format, I already told you how to do it in the post #3

**skunizzi** · 03-31-2009 05:42 PM

Yes you said to use the utilities, but my Kalyway install disc doesn't include any utilities. At least I don't see any. I boot up for a cd-rom and it launches the installtion. Then the installation stops probably due to the fact that the HD is not formateed, so how do I get to the utilities you mentioned in your post.

S

**icchansan** · 03-31-2009 05:48 PM

¬_¬ utilities menu...

Format your HDD as Extended Journaled...

Select Destination...

**Moddy** · 03-31-2009 05:50 PM

When you boot from the DVD - you should come to the installer, which is a bit like a wizard.

If you look to the menubar at the of the screen, there should be a menu named "Utilities". If you select that you should see a load of different utilities - "Network utility", "RAID utility" etc - now you should be able to select one named "Disk Utility".

Open that up and select the "Erase" tab, from here you can make a quick one-partition set-up. After that, just exit Disk Utility and you should return too the installer, exactly where you left off.

Hope this makes sense!

[Edit: Nemmind icchansan has beaten my words with pictures

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