Hi there,

Is it possible to install Mac X OS Leopard along with Linux and Xp
on the same hard disk ?
I already run Ubuntu and Xp
The hardware of my PC meets the requirements to run Mac X OS Leopard
thank you for helping.

If you have a Mac it's possible. Mac OS X will not run on a PC, AFAIK.

Minor correction: the recent Macs are Intel-based. You'll
notice that the iMac, MacMini, Macbooks are Core Duo machines.

That said: I have no idea whether Apple produces specific BIOS
or firmware for the to be doing the MacOS/X stuff. So I have
no answer for the OP - probably better to ask in a Mac forum.
And with this I move it to Other *Nix.


Cheers,
Tink

If you google "installing macosx on a pc", you get a mess of links. The first one is "Installing Mac OS X Leapord on a PC in Three Easy Steps." These are slightly old listings, because it was worked out very soon after the release of Mac OS X.

Also psystar sells "Mac Clones" which are exactly that -- PC's with Mac OS X installed. However, they are currently in a court fight with Apple, because their Mac clones are unauthorized.

Anyway, as already said, if you have a Mac, it is easy. You can use Parallels, VMWare Fusion, or Apple's Boot Camp. Originally, people were gravitating to Parallels. VMWare seems to have passed them up in performance and ease of use.

I happen to do most of my bill-paying work these days on a Macintosh, and so it is for this very-sufficient reason alone that I run OS/X and do it on the appropriate hardware.

One of the design-points of the OS/X system is that Apple always knows exactly what hardware will be running it. Therefore, they build exactly the level of software support that is required by all of those boxes, and they lock-out any box that they didn't produce. (Whether or not you "agree with" that decision, it does make a great deal of sense.)

The other OSes that you mention are designed to run on "unpredictable hardware," and so they contain hardware-detect features that OS/X lacks (because OS/X does not require it).

Bottom line: "if you want to run a Mac, get a Mac." Run all of the other OSes as guests under the Mac. It works just fine.