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<blockquote data-quote="Noels" data-source="post: 647048" data-attributes="member: 49942"><p>wlow,</p><p></p><p>1) Don't know whether you can install them both on the same Boot Camp, but maybe so with 2 Windows partitions... Maybe someone has done it before, but there isn't anything on that in the Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide that I recall. Maybe someone else can answer that for you.</p><p></p><p>2) If you use Fat32, you'll be able to transfer files from OS X to Windows. OS X doesn't recognize NTFS yet, so if you use NTFS, no file transfers possible unless using Parallels. Also no file transfers if your Windows partition is more than 32GB in size.</p><p></p><p>3) Windows has the same problems in Boot Camp as if it were on a Windows machine, so you do need virus protection. I'm using AVG and Zone Alarm. I don't know about Parallels, but probably not a problem there since it's virtual machine which is insulated from the internet. It's the virtual machine that offers the protection, not Leopard. Leopard can get a virus, but not likely...</p><p></p><p>4) Boot Camp is included in OS X inside the Applications/Utilities folder, you don't need to install it. You'll need SP2 as part of the full Windows version of XP to get XP installed. Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide discusses what versions of Windows are OK (That Guide is in OS X, too). You'd have to install SP3 after you install XP in Boot Camp.</p><p></p><p>Welcome on board.</p><p></p><p>Noel</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noels, post: 647048, member: 49942"] wlow, 1) Don't know whether you can install them both on the same Boot Camp, but maybe so with 2 Windows partitions... Maybe someone has done it before, but there isn't anything on that in the Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide that I recall. Maybe someone else can answer that for you. 2) If you use Fat32, you'll be able to transfer files from OS X to Windows. OS X doesn't recognize NTFS yet, so if you use NTFS, no file transfers possible unless using Parallels. Also no file transfers if your Windows partition is more than 32GB in size. 3) Windows has the same problems in Boot Camp as if it were on a Windows machine, so you do need virus protection. I'm using AVG and Zone Alarm. I don't know about Parallels, but probably not a problem there since it's virtual machine which is insulated from the internet. It's the virtual machine that offers the protection, not Leopard. Leopard can get a virus, but not likely... 4) Boot Camp is included in OS X inside the Applications/Utilities folder, you don't need to install it. You'll need SP2 as part of the full Windows version of XP to get XP installed. Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide discusses what versions of Windows are OK (That Guide is in OS X, too). You'd have to install SP3 after you install XP in Boot Camp. Welcome on board. Noel [/QUOTE]
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