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    3 OSes?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by arjeee, Jun 9, 2008.

  1. arjeee

    arjeee Notebook Geek

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    this might be a really stupid question but im curious is it possible to have a tri-boot with mac osx, vista and xp if u have a 5793? if so how is this done and how much hard drive space wud be taken up just by the os/apps?? iv heard something about a software called ubuntu i think...what is ubuntu?..lol...
     
    arjeee, Jun 9, 2008
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You cannot legally use OS X on a non-Apple PC (against EULA) so thread closed.

    XP/Vista is easy.
     
    Greg, Jun 9, 2008
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    vespoli 402 NBR Reviewer

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    May want to look at some sort of bootloader to run XP and Linux ... GParted is pretty popular.
     
    vespoli, Jun 9, 2008
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