“In this guide we’ll take you through installing multiple operating systems on the Intel based Developer Macintosh machine. This guide was put together by Ross Carlson and Joel Wampler to hopefully get you through building a machine that can run every major operating system currently available,” Jasbone.com reports. “This guide takes about 2 hours total. Let’s get started…”
The guide contains the following:
– Quick Guide
– Full Guide
– Install OS X
– Install Windows XP
– Install CentOS Linux
– Drivers
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Michael Dell say’s he’d be happy to sell Apple’s Mac OS X if Steve Jobs decides to license – June 16, 2005
If Intel-based Macs can run Mac OS X and Windows, buying a Mac will be a no-brainer – June 15, 2005
Dvorak predicts Mac OS X for generic x86, Apple ‘Office’ suite, dawn of Mac viruses and spyware – June 13, 2005
Intel-based Macs running both Mac OS X and Windows will be good for Apple – June 10, 2005
Why buy a Dell when Apple ‘Macintel’ computers will run both Mac OS X and Windows? – June 08, 2005
Apple to unleash Leopard on Microsoft’s Windows Longhorn; Mac OS X 10.5 due late 2006 – early 2007 – June 07, 2005
Apple to use Intel microprocessors beginning in 2006, all Macs to be Intel-based by end of 2007 – June 06, 2005
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
xp, how bout tp for my bum hole. same thing i say.
Not very meaningful though it’s a proof of concept. These are the developers Mactel, still using BIOS.
Final Mactel will use EFI in place of BIOS, the good part is that this way only 64-bit XP will have any chance to be installed on the Mactels since Apple will not forbid that. But this guide line will not work with actual real Mactels.
neat stuff. I think Apple is gonna sell a lot of these WIntels initially to a lot of geeks.
You callin’ me a geek?
Wintels? You mean Mactels of course. And yes, lots of people will buy them on the spot. It will be colossal.
The page at jasbone.com has been taken down pending the author hearing from Apple about whether he can keep it up or not.
poof… the article link is dead?
Apple is not going to sell “a lot” of Mactels to geeks because there just aren’t that many geeks!
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A lot predicted that geeks wouldn’t but PPC Macs after the Intel announcement so Mac sales would plummet. But Apple has already stated publicly that they have seen no drop-off in sales. I bet a few thousand geeks probably DID put off Mac purchases, but they were swamped numerically by average buyers who continue to buy more Macs then ever.
The final data isn’t in yet, of course, but it looks like geek influence is overrated…
mdn is playing catch up on this article. it’s been posted on macslash for atleast a day. interesting read, i’m totally clueless on what he did, but at least he did it. the author took it down due to fear of violating the nda, a ton of peeps on macslash took him to task over it.
Aww… they took it down.
Yeah, he took it down.
Still in Google’s cache, however:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:5VSR51iJLIcJ:www.jasbone.com/blog/+"Joel+Wampler"&hl=en&client=firefox-a
Multibooting – A Step-by-step How to Guide
“Everyone,
After discussing this with Apple I have decided to take this information down. Apple’s position is that this is a violation of their NDA so to respect that I have removed the information. It truly was never my intention to violate their NDA in the first place.
Thanks to everyone who submitted comments. Please do not submit any further comments or ask any further questions about this issue as I will respect the agreement I have with Apple and keep all future information confidential. Please also do not flame Apple as they were very professional.”
Is it just me, or is Apple sometimes really “brilliant” about killing free advertising?
^ That didn’t take long.
“Is it just me, or is Apple sometimes really “brilliant” about killing free advertising?”
Violating one’s NDA is not free advertising, we’ve been down this road too many times before. Brilliant or crazy, that’s the way it works.
Anyway, who today has a need to multi-boot an Intel-based Mac, besides developers who already have NDA’s and access to the hardware? For the rest of us it’s irrelevant. We’ll all have the chance to explore multi-booting on the regular-issue Intel-Macs soon enough.
No, they won’t sell many to geeks because geeks who use windows wouldn’t be used to all the free time they have without dealing with all the malware windows brings.
Pretty irrelevant since these procedures will probably not work on the final commercial product. But hey, its geeky!
i still want my dual AMD processor mac. screw intel…
Who needs Windoz on a Mac!
I need Windoz on my Mac.
First I have to demo the program I sell and it’s only available on Windoz. I could pay to have it converted for Macs, but VPC * XP SP2 Pro is a LOT cheaper – especially since a friend of my wife works for MS and I got the software through her.
Then there is one app for a piece of medical equipment that is only available on Windodoz. I use it 3 – 4 times a year and even have a USB-Serial connector in order to connect it up.
Personally I don’t want a dual boot. I prefer to stay with the VPC approach under the assumption that the MBU at MS will be able to kick up the performance significantly when there is an Intel chip inside. I have a feeling that they are working VERY hard on all MS products for Macs.