subject: Get Windows On Your System For The Must-have Programs [print this page] get windows on your system for the must-have programs
Here's how to triple-boot your Mac with OS X, Windows 7, and the shiny new Ubuntu 10.04.If you're a Mac user, you may have already used Apple's Boot Camp to get Windows on your system for those must-have programs.
installing Linux needs to be done with certain settings applied, or you'll be left with a jumbled mess. Here's a step-by-step guide to making your triple booting experience as user-friendly as possible.Before we do anything else, we're going to install a new boot menu for your Mac that will make your life during and after installation much easier. rEFIt will show up every time you start up your latitude d520 battery computer, asking you which OS you want to use.
Insert your Windows 7 install disc and restart your computer, unless you've already installed it, in which case, move on to installing Ubuntu). As your latitude d620 battery computer starts up, listen for the familiar Mac startup sound, then immediately press and hold the Option (or "Alt") key on your keyboard, until you see a drive icon with the word rEFIt under it.
Make sure you get the right one for your machine, whether it be a desktop/laptop or a netbook, and 32- or 64-bit. Once it's downloaded, burn it with your burning program of choice (I'm quite partial to the flexible, open-source Burn myself, though you could also do it with Disk Utility).
Head on over to rEFIt's SourceForge page and download the DMG for the most recent version of the installer latitude d820 battery (0.14 at the time of this writing). Open it up and launch the installer package, and go through the installation process (which is pretty self-explanatory; it'll do all the work for you).
Since we're triple-booting, it's easier to see it all at once, rather than let some tool do it for vostro 1000 battery (if you've already installed Windows using Boot Camp, though, that's finejust ignore the Windows parts of this step). Open up Disk Utility, click on your main drive (the very top option in the sidebar) and head to the "Partition" tab.
Do the same for a Linux and Linux swap partition, formatting each to MS-DOS (the format isn't super necessary, but at least for the Windows installation it does make the process easier). Hit the vostro 1400 battery apply button and let Disk Utility do it's thingit'll seem like it stops responding, but just leave it be for a minute, and you should be all set. Once it's done, move on to the next step.
