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Triple Booting an Intel Mac the Right Way

Posted by timothy on from the use-three-boots dept.

Miah Clayton writes "In the past, installing Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows on an Intel mac meant that you were forced into only having 3 usable partition slots due to the MBR/GPT hybrid limitations. Steven Noonan figured out a way to avoid dealing with the MBR partition limit and have a Linux install that isn't performance-crippled by having a swap file instead of a swap partition."

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  1. Re:buy a pc by Doctor_Jest · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ballmer, is that you again? Stop it, or we'll cut off your coffee allowance again and lock you in the special place. I mean it this time...

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    It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
  2. Swap partition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe you could just change the Windows partition type to Linux swap and use that!

  3. Re:GPT partitions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Windows Server 2008 most likely.

    Vista is old :)
    Server 2003 is in midlife crisis
    XP is ancient
    2000 is lore of years past...

    or something along those lines...

  4. Re:What is the point? by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    As much as this will sound like a trolling post, it's not... what is the point of buying a Mac and then triple booting OS X, Windows, and Linux?

    We choose to triple-boot a Mac in this decade and hack the other things, not because it is practical, but because it is fun.

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    Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
  5. Re:What is the point? by lupis42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But if you want my opinion, and what else is the point of the internet

    Is the internet no longer for porn?

  6. Re:Performance Crippled? by Ant+P. · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't have a separate drive to spare on my laptop for swap space, luckily I found a workaround for that by putting the swap on a ramdisk

  7. Re:buy a pc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "special place"? I assume you're talking about a room with no chairs (aka: Ballmer's hell).