The quest has ended. I have managed to install a dual boot Win XP Pro and Mac OSX on the MSI Wind. Using this tutorial from MSI Wind forums. It was just a breeze, finished the installation within half an hour. But i did a mistake of not removing the recovery partition, making the MSI Wind unbootable. It is supposed to be rectified easily by using Ubuntu 8.04 Live USB stick, to make the windows partition bootable. However since i don't have a good internet connection at that point of time, i made a mess of the installation. So, i have to remove or reformat the whole HD and do a complete installation of both OS.
To install Win XP for the MSI Wind, i need to use a USB method using USB multiboot software and download the whole Win XP Pro CD into the 4GB USB Stick. It took about an hour for a complete installation. Then the HD is repartitioned using Partition Magic 8.0 into 4 partition. One for Win XP Pro, one for Mac OSX, one for data and one for the MSIWindOSX86.iso. Then i folllowed the tutorial again. However at this point of time, i already have a bootable Ubuntu 8.04 live with me. The Mac OSX installation was a breeze, completed within half an hour. After the complete installation, the MSI is unbootable. However managed to reboot using Ubuntu 8.04 live USB stick and i make the Win XP partition bootable. After that, using Darwin kernel, i managed to dual boot the Win XP and Mac OSX for the MSI Wind.
However the MSIWindOSX86.iso is using a 10.5.4 version of OSX. Haven't got time to upgrade to 10.5.6, since you need to use severel kernel or kext help methods. But i am happy with 10.5.4, which is good enough for me.
Next plan, is to upgrade the SATA HD to a 320GB SATA HD and do a complete installation of both Win XP Pro and Mac OSX again. That would be in a few months time. For the time being, the 160GB HD is good enough for me. Will be using an 80GB or 160GB USB portable HD for my OSIRIX datasets, since it will also be hooked into my Macbook too.
The Leopard HD Install Helper is a great help. It reduces the difficulty of using a USB stick or the need to buy a USB DVD drive. By using the Leopard HD Install Helper, a dual boot Laptop or PC, can be easily be done either using the Kalyway DVD or even IATKOS DVD.
With this Leopard HD Install Helper, I will try to do a dual boot on my Dell D420 and Lenovo G400 laptop at home. Need to find a time first to do that.
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