I had seen other people just use Erase and it seemed like that would be fine for me. Disk Utility loaded this time, but there was no Partition tab. Back to Ubuntu, I formatted the partition to FAT and tried once more. After getting back to the installer, I tried loading Disk Utility again, but it hung at "Getting Disk Information", again for 15 minutes or so before I gave up. Then I created a full 60GB ext3 partition on there, hoping the OSX installer could deal with that. I booted an Ubuntu Live disk and partitioned the drive to remove the Windows System Information partition, and installed GUID Partition table. After bringing up Disk Utility, and clicking Partition, the installer locked up for 20 minutes before I gave up. Initially, the drive had a windows 7 install on it, which I was going to format away. BIOS settings for AHCI, suspend mode to S3, and DVD is first boot device, hard drive second. DVD is on first SATA port, SSD is on the 2nd. Removed a stick of ram to get down to 4GB, unplugged all extra drives and USB. I have set followed Tony's guide to a tee. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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