Installing Multiple OS on Single Computer With Ubuntu

Dual booting operating system means you can have different operating system on your PC. Both of these OS will take up the hard disk space. But, while using one OS e.g. Ubuntu, you won't be able to use the other one. For example, in this article we will be discussing about dual booting of Ubuntu and Mac OS on Intel platform. So, the question is how to do dual boot of Ubuntu and Mac? It is really not difficult task. You can also get different guides and Ubuntu howto related to this. But, here I would like to discuss some basic steps that would surely help the readers to get some hands on.

 Note: make sure to backup all your data while performing this task.

 1 Installation of rEFIt

 In normal PC, the GRUB is a boot loader that takes care of your dual booting but for Intel Mac users; you need to install some extra package called 'rEFIt'. This is a kind of boot-interrupter which helps us to boot between these two operating systems. This package is generally installed from Mac OS and you don't require using lots of other techniques to install it.

 Download the image file  and mount it.

 Then in the file system of this double click and find """" package.

 Follow simple instructions and choose the Mac OS volume as destination volume.

 If all the things goes correct then you would be able to see rEFIt menu while you restart the computer.

 2 Resizing the disk of Mac OS

 3 Rebooting the System with Live CD.

 4 Installation of Ubuntu on desired partition

  5 Reboot

 This basic guide would really help the users to get idea on how to dual boot Ubuntu with Mac OS on Intel platform.