[bigBrains]

I have Mini 9 with 2gig Ram and 64gig ssd. I have it partitioned. In the first partition I installed Windows 7, worked fantastic, In the second partition I installed iDeneb 1.4 (OSX 10.5.4).

OK, I was hoping it would give me a dual boot. I am a PC guy, trying my hand at this Apple stuff, so I do not have a clue how to change the boot loader to creat a dual boot. Can Anyone help?

Thanks
David

[ale896]

I found this link that may help you. I just installed OSX on my Mini, and I am preparing to install Windows 7 in the near future. So maybe this will help both of us! Let me know if this helps!

http://www.sevenforums.com/installat...dual-boot.html

[OmeRobbie]

Actually I want the same: Windows 7 or Windows XP dualbooting with OSX.

I have a new Dell Mini 9 and waiting for the Runcore 32Gb SSD to be delivered. I have searched a lot on this forum but could't find any "foolproof" install guide .

Is there such a thing as a new installguide? Or can someone write the steps down?

THNX

[sircharles]

I did it and have 'em both running. We had a thread about it over in the OS X forum, but it disappeared. I remember reading recently where someone claimed that Apple asked them to take it down (?).

David: I was in the reverse situation: a Mac guy with no Windows experience! We coulda used each others input when I was tearing my hair out trying to get it to work! I am trying to forget the install (as it was so painful), but I remember installing X first (GUID, not MBR) on the whole drive. Then I used Disk Utility to partition the free space. Then I installed Win 7 on the free space. Finally, I installed EasyBoot on Win 7 and now Windows Boot Manager pops up at bootup and asks me which I'd like - X or Win7. However, there were some headaches with: 1. making partitions active and 2. removing devices to allow Win 7 to install. Now, I live in fear (dread, rather) of the expiry of the Win 7 beta, as I'm wondering if it might leave me with an unbootable drive! I don't look forward to doing any more installing. Currently, however, everything is working great.

Hope this helps.

[OmeRobbie]

Originally Posted by sircharles

I did it and have 'em both running. We had a thread about it over in the OS X forum, but it disappeared. I remember reading recently where someone claimed that Apple asked them to take it down (?).

Hope this helps.

Can you explain how you did it on your Dell Mini 9?
Maybe you can PB me with some tips or hints...

[RobD]

I too am looking for an easy guide to doing OSX and XP in a dual boot configuration. I've been searching and trying to figure out how to do the DellEFI method and applying the knowledge from the Woohoo dual boot thread. My brain hurts from all the reading.

[datab]

Looks like I found a good tutorial for you:
http://www.sevenforums.com/installat...html#post26210

About to try it myself this weekend. Let me know how it works on the mini9

- D

[jocisdaddy]

OK first i gotta say i didnt write this, i found it online and it worked for me, hope it will help you guys. Here is the link to orig. page, if you would lke to check it out, and so credit is given to the right person.

Dell mini 9 OSX How-to & Discussion: You got Apple in my Dell - The Something Awful Forums

1. Boot off of the Win 7 disc/ hard drive with image.
2. Click ok through the first 2 screens of the installer.
3. Enter the CLI by hitting Shift-FN-F10 (or shift-f10 on another keyboard)
4. Type in the following commands to format the drive properly:
* diskpart.exe
* list disk
* select disk <your hard drive>
* clean
* convert GPT
* create partition EFI size=200
* create partition primary size=<size in mb for OSX>
* create partition primary size=<size in mb for win7>
* select partition 3
* format fs=ntfs
* assign letter c
5. Boot the OSX disk/drive
6. Format the unformatted partition to HFS+ Journaled
7. Install OSX and shutdown instead of restart at the end of the install. Remove the boot usb device
8. Boot and install WIndows 7 to the C: partition setup from the last time
9. Once Windows is finished installing, download EasyBCD and add a generic Mac to the list and shutdown.
10 . Plug in the usb boot device for OSX and boot up Leopard. Once you get past the setup, install the DellEFI. You may hang at the grey Apple Logo on boot. If so, just power off and try again. Others (including me) have had this happen, but every other boot afterwords has worked.
11. You should have a working dual boot with Leopard and Win7.

[jocisdaddy]

Originally Posted by sircharles

I did it and have 'em both running. We had a thread about it over in the OS X forum, but it disappeared. I remember reading recently where someone claimed that Apple asked them to take it down (?).

David: I was in the reverse situation: a Mac guy with no Windows experience! We coulda used each others input when I was tearing my hair out trying to get it to work! I am trying to forget the install (as it was so painful), but I remember installing X first (GUID, not MBR) on the whole drive. Then I used Disk Utility to partition the free space. Then I installed Win 7 on the free space. Finally, I installed EasyBoot on Win 7 and now Windows Boot Manager pops up at bootup and asks me which I'd like - X or Win7. However, there were some headaches with: 1. making partitions active and 2. removing devices to allow Win 7 to install. Now, I live in fear (dread, rather) of the expiry of the Win 7 beta, as I'm wondering if it might leave me with an unbootable drive! I don't look forward to doing any more installing. Currently, however, everything is working great.

Hope this helps.

If 7 was to expire you could probably just boot from the 7 install disc an it should give you the option to format the partition/hdd that you were using and that should make your drive bootable again. Just a theory but it seems like using the disc you used to put the os on the drive/partition would work to clear that same disc/partition.

Or you could always sign up for live/hotmail and go use your account to download windows 7 release candidate(Evaluation Copy build 7100) straight from microsoft and get a product key with it, an its good until june of next year.