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dual osx and windows 7 on dell mini 9 Win7 SCREAMS on this thing, and boot up time is blazing fast. I have the 32gb ssd so I split it in half.
required:
dell mini with 32GB or more
3 usb one must be 8GB or more for osx, another is 4gb for windows 7 and last one is 128mb is enough.
if you only have 2 usb, one must be 16gb, find the ipc osx boot up osx go to utility and partition the thing into 2, one is 200mb format as dos-fat and the rest for osx format extended journal (you can actually use the ipc to do osx install with less pain but i want retail version)
win7 retail, rmt, rc or beta whatever
osx dvd retail or whatever just try to see if it work


to start
on windows pc
download the latest version of syslinux http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ in my case is syslinux-3.82.zip
extract syslinux-3.82.zip, click start run, cmd enter, at the command type in cd and go back to the folder and open up syslinux-3.82 drag in the win32 folder to the dos screen hit enter, it will change your directory to win32 of syslinux-3.82, before you do anything else, make sure you plug in your smallest usb drive into your computer and see what letter your computer assign to the drive, now type syslinux -ma F: where "F" is the drive letter of your smallest usb hit enter, you won't get any confirm message that this will work but if you do get an error message then something is wrong.

now go download
DellMiniBoot123v8.01 (for 10.5.5 DVDs and below) -http://mydellmini.googlecode.com/files/DellMiniBoot123v8.01.iso.zip
OR
DellMiniBoot123v8.02b1 (for 10.5.6 DVDs and above) - http://mydellmini.googlecode.com/files/ ... b1.iso.zip
after you download the iso, extract it to your smallest usb drive that have syslinux in it, if it ask you to overwrite the syslinux DONOT over write, you want to keep what you have earlier. now you are done with create a bootable dell mini boot usb drive.

next step is copy all the file of your windows 7 to your 4gb usb drive, now plug in your usb to dell mini 9 and boot up, hit 0 to select drive to boot from, select usb drive, if you don't see this you must go to bios and enable usb legacy, hit any key to boot from usb or
1. Boot off of the Win 7 disc/ hard drive with image.
2. Click ok through the first 2 screens of the installer. (where it as you for your language and stuff)
3. Enter the CLI by hitting Shift-FN-F10 (or shift-f10 on another keyboard)
4. Type in the following commands to format the drive properly:

* diskpart.exe wait for a second until you see the diskpart>_
* list disk
* select disk <your hard drive>
* clean
* convert GPT
* create partition EFI size=200
* create partition primary size=<size in mb for OSX>
* create partition primary size=<size in mb for win7>
* select partition 3
* format fs=ntfs
* assign letter c

5. Boot the OSX disk/drive
6. Format the unformatted partition to HFS+ Journaled
7. Install OSX and shutdown instead of restart at the end of the install. Remove the boot usb device
8. Boot and install WIndows 7 to the C: partition setup from the last time
9. Once Windows is finished installing, download EasyBCD and add a generic Mac to the list and shutdown.
10 . Plug in the usb boot device for OSX and boot up Leopard. Once you get past the setup, install the DellEFI. You may hang at the grey Apple Logo on boot. If so, just power off and try again. Others (including me) have had this happen, but every other boot afterwords has worked.
11. You should have a working dual boot with Leopard and Win7!

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