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hi

i was wondering whether it is possible to have a dual boot of Leopard and XP Home Edition on a PC.

i have
intel c2d e6850
3gb crucial ballistix 1066mhz
8600gt fatal1ty edition gfx card
1x 750gb wd hdd
1x 500gb samsung hdd
1x 400gb hitachi hdd
1x pioneer dvd-rw
1x samsung dvd-rw

will leopard work on this type of hardware and if so could someone please give me advice on how to install a dual boot of leopard and xp

thanks

What motherboard do you have in there? Since that seems to be the biggest issue.

I have it installed on my machine (see this thread: www.forums.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=292&Thread=702791&Type=1&Page=2)
Apart from a couple of minor issues it works very well.
Only things I have outstanding are a) get it booting directly off the hard drive (although I`m not too fussed about it) and b) get the graphics card quartz enabled (should be doing that this evening).

As for your install...I`m assuming of course that you have purchased a licence for Leopard ;)
Once you have that...you basically need to get hold of a copy of Leopard that will install on your machine. The most popular one seems to be iATKOS.

Word of warning, this isn`t for the faint-hearted, and can involve a fair bit of messing around to get it working right. If you`re happy with command line editing and partitioning etc. then you should be fine.

Head over to the up huck forums (remove the space between the p & h - swearword filters it) - where you can find detailed installation instructions etc.

Otherwise, PM me if you want more info.
Miles

This item was edited on Monday, 7th January 2008, 14:27

hi miles
thanks i have a gigabyte ga-p35-ds3r mobo.

will let you know how i get on

thanks

Looks like you might be ok with that mobo.
up****.ggrn.de/forum/showthread.php?p=4120&highlight=ga-p35-ds3r#post4120

Have you managed to have a crack at it as yet?

I`ve been using mine as the OS of choice at the moment, and I`m actually quite liking it, which is a little surprising for me, given I`ve been happily using Windows for years.

I did some DivX>MP4 converting last night with real ease (using iSquint) and iTunes recognises and can write to my ipod happily (just won`t do a system update on it).

I haven`t played around with the video editing (iMovie) as yet, since this was something I wanted to try out on a Mac before I took the plunge.

Still have to remember that the keyboard layout is strange (ie American style for @ key etc.)

I need to wean the wife off Outlook Express and over to Thunderbird on the Windows install, so that it can be easily migrated to a Mac if necessary (hopefully just literally copied across).

Still have to remember that the keyboard layout is strange (ie American style for @ key etc.)

iirc my mac mini did the same thing, but there was a setting to sort it, as for running it full time, i`d deffo consider it once it runs everything i need it to, i mainly struggle playing the high def video stuff, which unfortunately is my main use for it :(


i`ll be making an install attempt on my main pc today, i`ll let you know how i go on with it :)

I installed (that`s a joke really, its just dragging to the applications area :D) VLC & the Divx component for Quicktime.

VLC handles the .mkv (h264 encoded) files with ease and plays back nicely. Quicktime played my Divx stuff without a problem as well.

i also have VLC + divx for mac installed, & googled for any mac codec packs etc, but there are still a lot of files (inc some oddly encoded mkv`s) that simply won`t play ball, whilst media player classic runs them perfectly :/ + tbh, imo media player classics feels miles better to use (again, only imo ;) )

any suggestions for a peerguardian equivalent for mac OsX leopard ?

also, whats the best torrent client :)

cheers guys, btw, leopard went on fine & runs brill as long as i leave the boot dvd in the drive, gonna do another intstall now & install it better, + put little snitch in BEFORE I CONNECT TO THE INTERNET LOL :)

I use "Transmission" for the torrent client.
And I think Peerguardian is available for Mac OSX as well (I`m sure I found it last week).
In fact...here it is:
phoenixlabs.org/pgosx/

I`ve got the same issue with leaving the DVD in the drive, but it doesn`t bother me that much to install a boot loader.

What is "little snitch" and should I have used it before connecting!?!?! :D

PS - Am still using OSX as my OS of choice at the mo...and its working pretty well IMHO.