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Mac OS alongside Vista and Linux?

  • 05-07-2010 10:21am
    #1
    mk6705
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭


    I recently bought a Macbook. Upon getting it, I formatted the HDD, and partitioned it into three partitions. One 16 GB, another 16 GB and the remaining partition, about 270 GB or so.

    I first installed Windows Vista on the 270 GB partition. That went fine. I then installed Ubuntu Linux on one of the 16 GB partitions. That also worked fine, and I'm now dual-booting without a problem.

    My question is, is it possible to install Mac OSX on the other 16 GB partition without having to format the entire HDD? And is the partition big enough? And if not, how big does it need to be, and again will I be able to install Mac OS without formatting the entire HDD?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    slowlydownwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭slowlydownwards


    Don't think you'll need to reformat. I did it slightly differently in order to make sure that boot loader gives me option of triple booting. So, installed win first, then mac os and then linux. Grub (linux boot manager) recognised windows and macos, so now have triple booting machine ;). A lots of info on http://www.osx86project.org/


  • #3
    mk6705
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭mk6705


    Did you install them all on the same hard drive? Just using different partitions?


  • #4
    slowlydownwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭slowlydownwards


    Yeah, one HD, just separate partitions. Think I had to put macos on the first (physical) partition though.


  • #5
    mk6705
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭mk6705


    slowlydownwards wrote: »
    Yeah, one HD, just separate partitions. Think I had to put macos on the first (physical) partition though.

    Is it possible for me to make a small partition as the first physical partition without affecting the current one?


  • #6
    slowlydownwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭slowlydownwards


    Yeah, I think so. Partition Magic or GParted may allow you to do that, although I never did it myself, being afraid of the data loss.

    Will expand my reply a bit, hopefully it helps. This is what worked for me, there are certainly other ways to do it. Here's the partition table.

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    I first created two primary (this bit is important) partitions: sda1 (macos) and sda2 (windows). The rest was created as one secondary partiton, which I later divided into several parts: sda5 (linux root), sda6 (linux swap), etc...


    Although it is great to have a tripple booting machine, it was more just for a challenge of it. For anything more productive you may be better off with virtual machines (from any of the three environments) which will allow you to skip among the operating systems without reboot.


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