Macbook pro triple-boot

Windows Vista 64-bit version can use EFI, which could make the whole partitioning scheme easier?

giving up on Vista 64-bit now, damn non-free Vista... XP/MBR it is

• start with new Macbook Pro (15", 2.6ghz, 200GB 7200rpm HDD, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT/512MB)
• made bootable rEFIt 0.11 disk
• Install Boot-camp; Run the Boot Camp Assistant and create the Windows XP driver cd.

* Go into Applications/Utilities
* Open Boot Camp Assistant. Print out the Instructions.
* Partition the drive by using the graphical slider in the Assistant and Accept the changes. Insert the XP disk. Let it reboot your system. It will load up into the XP installer. Install XP. After it is all installed and setup and you are in Windows, put in your Leopard disk and the drivers will install for all the devices( mouse, mic, iSight, video, etc). You are done.

BootCampInstallationSetupGuide.pdf

• "diskutil list"

robert-hamiltons-macbook-pro:Desktop rob$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *186.3 Gi   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         200.0 Mi   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            186.0 Gi   disk0s2

186.3 (total) = disk0s2 146G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Linux" 20G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Windows" 20G

sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 146.3G "Linux" "Linux" 20G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Windows" 20G

• enable root user now using "Directory Utility" ("Edit" menu > "Enable Root User...") in Applications/Utilities

• NOTE: some guides here say type "Linux" "Linux"... but I get error saying "Linux does not appear to be a valid file system fomat. Valid filesystems: "Journaled HFS+" "HFS+" "Case-sensitive HFS+" "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" "HFS" "MS-DOS FAT16" "MS-DOS FAT32" "MS-DOS FAT12" "MS-DOS" "UDF" "UFS" "ZFS"

sh-3.2# sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 146G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Linux" 20G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Windows" 20G
Started resizing on disk disk0s2 Macintosh HD
Verifying 
Resizing Volume 
Adjusting Partitions
Formatting new partitions
Formatting disk0s4 as MS-DOS (FAT32) with name Windows
Formatting disk0s3 as MS-DOS (FAT32) with name Linux
[ + 0%..10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..60%..70%..80%..90%..100% ] 
Finished resizing on disk disk0
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *186.3 Gi   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         200.0 Mi   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            145.9 Gi   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data LINUX                   20.0 Gi    disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data WINDOWS                 20.1 Gi    disk0s4

• rebooted

robert-hamiltons-macbook-pro:~ rob$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *186.3 Gi   disk0
  1:                        EFI                         200.0 Mi   disk0s1
  2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            145.9 Gi   disk0s2
  3:       Microsoft Basic Data LINUX                   20.0 Gi    disk0s3
  4:       Microsoft Basic Data WINDOWS                 20.1 Gi    disk0s4

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-397652.html

http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp

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