Boot Camp without upgrading to Leopard?

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I have a copy of Leopard, but don't like many of the new features, so I want to stay with Tiger. However, I want to take advantage of Boot Camp. Does anyone know of a way to install and use Boot Camp without installing all of Leopard?
 
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Nope... none that I'm aware of anywho. Your best option would be to do a bare, minimal install of Leopard just to be able to manage Boot Camp. Then install Tiger to a new partition. You can use Leopard to make your Windows partition afterwards. Choose what you want to boot into by holding down the OPTION key while booting, or use a chooser like rEFIt. The downside here is you are sacrificing some disk space to host Leopard, but it's the only alternative I can think of.
 
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if you can get a hold of the bootcamp beta dmg then maybe the old trick (setting your date back on your mac) still works and you can create a boot camp partition with the beta.
 
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- Just create partitions
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and dual boot..... No need of Bootcamp at all. BC has still long way to go.
 
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I have a copy of Leopard, but don't like many of the new features, so I want to stay with Tiger.

I don't understand why you wouldn't want to use Leopard. It's no different from Tiger in everyday use. The new 'features' are cover flow (which you can turn off) and stacks, which you can ignore.

What features don't you like?

You'll need to go onto Leopard eventually.
 
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oh if you have leopard why not just install leopard create your bootcamp partition, install windows, and after that install tiger on the mac partition and erase your leopard install?
 
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a beta of bootcamp will work if you can find a dmg, i was able to find one a while back but cant find it now.
 
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How will beta of bootcamp still work. It's already expired right??
 
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Setting the date back??.... only during installation or permanently??
 
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The date should just be for creating partition and driver cd.
Once installed it should be fine.
 
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As said, bootcamp users who still had it, it didnt stop it from working, it just wont get any updates, but your windows install and bootcamp still function, you just cant update it, or redo it.

What i suggested was simply doing a bootcamp install prior to the expiration, make an image of the fresh install, and then you dont have worries about having to install it.
 

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