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3,767 reads · 2010-08-16 – 2010-08-18
Note 10.X Core

do you have to dual boot

ok so i was thinking of put snow leopard on a external hard drive so on my main computer is windows 7. i was just going to ask do you have to have a dual booter on my main computer to run snow leopard on the external hard drive or can i…

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@Ryan1256 Published 2010-08-16
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OSx86 Core & 10.X
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3,767 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2010-08-16 – 2010-08-18
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@Ryan1256 (2)@rog1121

ok so i was thinking of put snow leopard on a external hard drive so on my main computer is windows 7.
i was just going to ask do you have to have a dual booter on my main computer to run
snow leopard on the external hard drive or can i just install a dual booter on my external hard drive?

Synthesized Community Field Notes

1 technical responses curated from 3 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @rog1121 2010-08-17

Nope

No you don't have to do it at all.

When you boot just boot from the extrnal hdd. ig you want you could install chameleon and whenever you boot from the external hdd you could select to boot into win 7

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@rog1121Contributor12010-08-17