How Many OS can I install with BootCamp?

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How Many OS can I install with BootCamp?

I am thinking of installing the following on my MacPro, all at the same time:

1. OSX - which is currently the only OS installed

2. Windows XP

3. Windows 7

4. Another install of OSX from the disks that came with my MacPro.

Is any of this possible before I start messing around?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Chaz

Posted on Mar 28, 2010 12:18 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Mar 28, 2010 12:37 PM in response to chazperx

Boot Camp will only make one partition for Windows, so you can install only one version. Boot Camp will not allow more than one OS X and one Windows partition.

To do what you want would require using some other boot loader than what is provided via Boot Camp Assistant. The loader you could use is call rEFit - VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

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Answer 2

The hatter

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Mar 28, 2010 1:01 PM in response to Kappy

Mac Pro? you can have Windows (different version, or linux, etc) on each drive.

Use the "older first" when installing, and Windows will present its own boot menu.

VMs work great on Mac Pro with enough RAM and cores.

Boot Camp is designed more for the "one internal hard drive" iMac/MacBook family, all it is is a partition tool.

You can have a 1TB drive with 7, Vista, XP.

And, you can install Windows 7 without resorting to Boot Camp Assistant at all, format the drive in Windows 7 DVD anyway, as 7 creates its own 100MB system recovery partition.

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