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Can you make a partition 1st (w/Disk Utility) and THEN use Boot Camp/install Windows?
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<blockquote data-quote="smartyMAC" data-source="post: 536376" data-attributes="member: 33037"><p>Bootcamp & disk utlity do the same thing as far partitioning is concerned. Only difference being that you can not partition a mounted drive using disk utility. So you need boot camp for partitioning the drive running MAc OS. If you want to partition using disk utility, you need to boot from Mac OS DVD and then partition the drive.</p><p></p><p>In any case, you dont need boot camp to install the second/third OS. Bootcamp is just a partitioning tool and provides a graphical interface for dual booting... an open source utility named rEFIt provides a much better menu than bootcamp (atleast it shows the OSs correctly. bootcamp assumes that second OS is windows even when it's actually running linux etc)</p><p></p><p>So once the partition is created all you need to do is boot with the second os cd and then point to the second partition for installation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartyMAC, post: 536376, member: 33037"] Bootcamp & disk utlity do the same thing as far partitioning is concerned. Only difference being that you can not partition a mounted drive using disk utility. So you need boot camp for partitioning the drive running MAc OS. If you want to partition using disk utility, you need to boot from Mac OS DVD and then partition the drive. In any case, you dont need boot camp to install the second/third OS. Bootcamp is just a partitioning tool and provides a graphical interface for dual booting... an open source utility named rEFIt provides a much better menu than bootcamp (atleast it shows the OSs correctly. bootcamp assumes that second OS is windows even when it's actually running linux etc) So once the partition is created all you need to do is boot with the second os cd and then point to the second partition for installation. [/QUOTE]
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