Dual Boot Leopard & Windows XP.....

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Revolution

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Please guide me !
I want my my PC with dual boot Leopard and Windows XP.
Is that possible ?

My System:
Intel E2180 CPU
Gigabyte G31 Mobo
2 GB RAM
 
I am looking for info on this as well. So far the guides are on dual booting Leopard and Vista. None for XP though...
 
Dual booting with XP is pretty simple, ive already posted this sometime back, here.

Dual Boot XP and Leopard
Kalyway 10.5.2/ Leo4All work perfectly with most configurations, i'm myself using Kalyway build along with XP in Dual boot (both on same HDD) and it works flawlessly, most things worked out of the box but after few initial hiccups.

But the overall experience has been spectacular. i rarely use windows.
Dual booting is actually pretty straightforward thing. Here's how to go about it.

1. Make two partitions on your Primary HDD, one for vista/XP and other for leopard.

2. Install Vista/XP first.
3. Incase you have previously installed XP/Vista, skip first two steps and move onto the following.
4. Boot the Kalyway disk, after finishing with the installation successfully, the system will restart and now you will see the Darwin Boot-loader instead of vista's boot-loader as your Leopard partition is automatically set as the active partition.

5. The bootloader will show you various OS's installed on your PC and from there you can select whatever you want to boot.

6. This method is actually the most simplest to make a dual boot Mac/Windows machine.

Always remember that patience is the key to have succes with Hackintosh.
It may take lots and lots of reinstalls to get a perfectly working hackintosh, in my case it was 7 times.

Look around HCL 10.5.2(google this) for help and there's always Insanelymac, lots of useful stuff.

Also when you boot the kalyway disk make sure you press F8 and use -v(verbose) boot flag so that its easy to know if you get stuck somewhere.

All the best.
 
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