this is the personal blog of brandon quintana.

When Apple released Boot Camp for Mac OS X, which allows the user to install Windows XP alongside Mac OS X, it really opened the door of opportunity and possibility. When the Intel Macs first arrived I thought it would be great if I could run Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows on my laptop since I’m on the go and can’t live without my laptop.

I have one of the Intel Core Solo Mac Minis which I host this site as well as lightenment.com. Since that is the case, I have yet to try Boot Camp to see if it actually works. I’m hoping they release the MacBook and I will try it then.

After reading a lot of documentation, there were the typical bugs with the Boot Camp software, but the software is in beta and it recommends you back up your data. I figure I would research the topic more before using it on my primary workstation (the one that currently doesn’t exist at the moment).

I came across the Triple Boot via Boot Camp tutorial on the onMac.net Wiki. I had discovered an easy tutorial to accomplish exactly what I was looking for. With this I would be able to run all three systems on one machine.

To take it one step further, like other readers virtualization would be even nicer and a company called Parallels had a working beta of exactly that. After more reading, this software is still buggy and again you can’t blame beta software for being buggy. That’s why it’s beta. Microsoft has released its own virtualization server for Windows and Linux has had similar solutions so I figure it is only a matter of time until Apple comes out with its own virtualization scheme.

For the time being a correct Triple Boot install seems to be the best option. Let me know if you have any experience in this subject and as always feel free to post your comments.