As Frank says, Boot Camp only supports one Windows partition. It does not
have to be on the same drive with OS/X but it has to be on an internal
drive.

I have read references to a few multiboot systems of the type you describe
but they were not put together with Boot Camp or with anything else
generally available.

"Helpful Harry" wrote in message %helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com...
> In article , "Colin
> Barnhorst" wrote:
>> "Helpful Harry" wrote in message
>> %helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com...
>> > In article , "Colin
>> > Barnhorst" wrote:
>> >> "Frank" wrote in message @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw...
>> >> >
>> >> > I need to run 3 different versions of Windows -- amnd I could do so
>> >> > very well with my G4 Mac and Virtual PC 7.0.3 (although they were
>> >> > not
>> >> > too fast, all worked). Now I got a new Intel-based MacBook and
>> >> > bootCamp
>> >> > is included free, but it only allows me to run one version of
>> >> > Windows
>> >> > ... as far as I understand.
>> >> >
>> >> > Anyone knows if there is a way, e.g. with BootCamp, or with
>> >> > Parallels
>> >> > or any of the others mentioned here to install more than one Windows
>> >> > version?
>> >>
>> >> You can use Parallels to run several versions of Windows. Just create
>> >> a
>> >> different virtual machine for each one.
>> >
>> > You can also install as many different operating systems with Boot Camp
>> > as you want, not just Windows (limited by hard drive space of course).
>> > You then reboot the computer into whichever one you want to use.
>> >
>> > No doubt VMWare Fusion lets you create multiple virtual machines as
>> > well.
>>
>> Harry, are you sure Boot Camp will support more than one partition at a
>> time?
>
> Not 100% since I've never used it, but I have read about a few other
> people who have triple / quadruple / quintuple booting Macs where they
> can choose MacOS, Windows 98, Windows 2000 / XP and Linux (and possibly
> something like BeOS).
>
>
>
> Helpful Harry
> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

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