Three systems installed on Macbook Pro

Preparatory work:

1.macbook Pro One;

2. Apple Snow Leopard (Snow Leopard) installation disk (recommended Mac OS X 10.6 and above);

3.windows installation disk (take Windows XP for example);

4.linux Ubuntu installation disk (recommended ubuntu9.04 and above).

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One. Install Mac OS X

Power On (Press the Power key), at the same time, hold down the OPTION key CD-ROM boot, enter the Mac OS X installation interface, choose to start the installation language "Simplified Chinese", ready to install before entering the top of the screen taskbar utility-Disk tool, the point continues to select the entire hard disk format into a Mac OS extension ( LOG), the format can begin to install it! Click on a series of consents to continue after the automatic installation. After the completion of the click Restart, gorgeous welcome interface, follow the installation instructions to enter personal information, it's OK!mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installation was successful. (Erasing in the disk utility is what we normally call the format in Windows)

PS: Of course, if the network allows under the conditions, after entering the desktop, click on the top left of the screen Apple icon to update the best software.

Two. Install Windows XP

Foreword: 1. We install Windows with the Bootcamp assistant installed, the installation of Windows, please be familiar with the Mac OS X system related operations;

2. When installing Windows, Linux Ubuntu is also treated as a version of Windows, so the system prompts you to opt in to XP or Ubuntu when you finally enter the Windows system.

After entering the Mac OS X operating system, locate the application/Utility/bootcamp Assistant and open, set the size of the Windows partition you want to partition (the Windows partition size here is the Windows Xp+linux ubuntu+ three system shared hard disk space , according to individual needs to set up, click on the partition, after the good, insert the Windows XP installation CD-ROM, click Reboot, the computer will automatically boot from the CD drive. After restarting, enter the Windows XP partition interface, delete the inside C disk (that is, the Windows section you just divided), and then quit the reboot, note: When restarting, hold down the left mouse button, you can exit the Windows XP CD-ROM in the CD-ROM and insert the Linux Unbuntu installation CD , the CD-ROM after the start, select the Unbuntu icon into the Unbuntu, the installation language to choose English or Chinese casually, before installation we need to use the Linux Ubuntu partition (Windows (xp+ three systems shared hard disk partition) and Linux Ubuntu) partitions, Select manual partitions to divide free spaces into 3 areas, SDA3 (FAT32 format (Windows xp+ share), SDA4 (ext3) (Linux ubuntu System), Sda5 (Swap) (this is the Linux swap area, typically set to 2G , of course, if you have enough memory to ignore partitions), after the completion of the installation of personal information, click to install, when you see the installation progress bar on the display copy files (copy file) exit (need to be strong--"power button"), then remove the Unbuntu installation CD-ROM and insert the Windows XP installation CD , into XP under the installation of the partition screen can be selected under the Unbuntu has been for the installation of XP system zoned C partition, the next installation from the C partition XP, installation steps with PC, NTFS fast lattice disk installation. Reboot after installation, remove XP installation CD when restarting and insert the Snow Leopard application disk that comes with the Snow Leopard installation disk, which has Windows drive. The next step, like installing Windows on a PC, is the final entry into the Windows desktop, which is upgraded, primarily Bootcamp, for future installation of Windows Vista or Windows 7. Windows XP installation OK!

PS: You need to install Windows Vista steps with xp,windows 7 to upgrade Bootcamp to over 3.1.

Three. Install Linux Unbuntu

Put the Ubuntu Setup disk under Windows XP, reboot from the CD-ROM drive, into the Unbuntu installation of the partition interface, the installation language recommended to choose English (if the Internet is strong enough you can choose Chinese, because the installation of the progress bar to 95% due to the installation needs in Europe and the United States server download language packs will be very slow, May be waiting for you to collapse, therefore, the choice of English without downloading language packs, we can then enter the system's language settings for download), the SDA4 (ext3) before the mount point (Mount points) into (root partition), the format is still ext3, now set up the account, password and other information, You can install the Unbuntu, after installation, when you restart the computer, click option to see an Apple system partition and a Windows partition, select the Windows partition that icon double-click, enter the Unbuntu grub interface, If you want to enter the Unbuntu system to select the first press ENTER, enter the XP system then select Other systems Windows XP icon Press ENTER on the OK.

PS: Update Ubuntu Chinese language pack: After entering Ubuntu desktop, click on the System option in Ubuntu systems-System Management--language Support, click Install/remove Languages ... button, start to install or uninstall the Language pack, select Chinese (Simplified) and select the Right check box, then click Apply Changes, then the system will download the latest Chinese Language pack files to the official upgrade, not too fast, if you install a live DVD, There should be a lot of packages in the local can be added at any time to modify, more convenient. After the upgrade is complete, it will go back to the language switch window interface, and then click for my menus and windows, and click on the list box below, clicking Chinese (China) is OK, next keep the same is everybody uses this language to sign in use the meaning, selects can. Then close the language switch window. Next click on the top right corner of the account management shortcuts log out ... Log off the current user, and then log in again, and the language display has been switched. Once again to confirm whether to "update the standard folder to the current language" prompt, is to rename the user folder to the current language display, the choice of their own can be, switching language finished. Supplemental Common settings: The default Ubuntu installation after the time is based on the 12-hour system, only to the time on the right key preferences can be modified into a 24-hour system.

OK, the three systems have been completely installed successfully! The last three system shared partitions can be partitioned by the disk partitioning tool in the system with XP, the method is no longer introduced, and can be searched by oneself online. Done