Thanks for the kind words, glad it helped you out

thank you so much for writing this guide!

i was having these exact same problems and this guide was the only resource i could find online to solve it.

major thank yous, it worked like a charm!

b

Unfortunately, i don’t think that it is that easy.

What you will probably have to do is create another partition that you will be using for your Linux install and then restart and boot from the Linux DVD to install onto that partition. You could try it from boot camp, but i think it may need to be done manually.

The problem is that i do not know if you will then be able to select the linux install when booting up the Mac with the option key pressed.

I found some information here but its pretty low level stuff and can get complicated…

http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp

If you do try it then please come back and let me know how you get on. As i say i have not tried this so i dont know how successful it will be.

thanks so much for your post,
it means if i wanna isntall linux, then i just insert linux cd/dvd into dvd drive (step 14)?

I think the best thing for you to do is to format the computer again and put the Mac OSX disk in first and install that. It sounds to me like you are trying to install windows first n then OSX over the top which is not advisable.

Put OSX in and boot from disc by holding down C, then go into disk utlity and make sure there is only one clean drive. Install osx onto that AND then use bootcamp to install windows.

Now, I have C: and D:. i also got the two disks of mac OS.

the problem now is that i want to install both wndows XP and Mac OS X each one on a drive. the first on the C: drive and the other on the D:.

i installed windows XP and then tried to install Mac OS X after windows.

I put the CD that is labled: “Mac OS X Install Disk 1″ and then i followed the wizard till i reached the finish up part and suddenly an error message appeared. it said something like: “the installation has failed, please try again”.

i dunno what to do now, especially that i must give in the labtop in 2-3 days max.

please help me find out how to finish this.

thanks chewie
besso

Besso:
I am struggling to understand why you decided to create another partition on the disc when the MacBook was already running windows and OSX?

You are going to need to get hold of the Leopard disc so that you can boot from that (Put the disc in a hold C on the keybord). Once it has all loaded you want to goto Disc Utility and then look at the partitions. If i understand you correctly their should be 3 different partitions, you probably want to delete the new one that you made.

Hope that helps.

please read this carefully and try to help me if u dont mind.

i have a MacBook Pro. i had windows XP and Mac OS both installed on it. there was only one drive or one partition. i wanted to make it two partitions so i used a Windows bootable CD to do that. when i got that screen that shows a list of the partions on the hard drive, i found three parts. i chose the one that didnt have anything on and formatted it to create a part.,…
here comes the problem. when i restarted my PC, my system crashed and i couldnt even access to it not even in the safe mode.

this PC is not mine. it belongs to someone else and he has all his work files on it. if he finds out that i did this to his PC, it is gonna be the end of the world to me. so please help me…

besso

Many thanks, I have never use a Mac before so I don’t really know how to install Leopard, means what should I do.

Regards,

Clarisse