Can I install a non-Mac operating system on a Mac machine?
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You can't wipe the Mac OS off completely, but you can run an emulated Windows XP environment from within the OS. Apple themselves have recently released software called "Boot Camp" that allows Mac users to do just that. This was big news when it was announced. You should be able to download a trial now from Apple's website (http://www.apple.com). There's also other provides of OS emulation software (or virtualisation software). VMWare (http://www.vmware.com) currently offer their VMWare Server application free for download - I *think* this runs on Macs too. The software allows you to create virtual machines based around a variety of OS's including Linux and Windows XP. \n\nHope that's helped.\n\nH
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Well, you can't, I'm not a Mac user but I'm pretty sure that you can't purchase OSX 10.2 anymore.  The latest version is OSX 10.4 Tiger.  I'm going to say that you'll have to buy Tiger and reformat your computer.  I don't know if you can upgrade from 10.1.5 to Tiger or not but I'm pretty sure you can't.\n\nWhether or not you can run Tiger also depends on your system specs which requires you to have a PowerPC G3, G4 or G5 processor at 600MHz or faster and 256MB of memory and a DVD drive.
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No you cannot.\n\nit is like trying to use a pc without OS
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Yes, you should be able to do so.  Here is a link with the hardware requirements (since it is mostly bug fixes, they should be the same as 9.0).\n\nhttp://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2010.html\n\nand you can download the update here:\n\nhttp://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/9689&vid=7075\n\nRemember to back up your important documents before upgrading, read the documentation, etc.!
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If you don't want to install XP, then unfortunately there's now way you can run MS Flight Simulator on your Mac.  I would suggest you switch to X-Plane; it's a popular cross-platform flight simulator.\nhttp://www.x-plane.com/default.html\nhttp://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/demos_updates/xplane.html
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there's a few different ways, but they all cost a good deal of money. first is to use virtualization programs, second is to use boot camp to run windows. of course, you can only do the first one unless you have an Intel-based mac. Other than those two, there really isn't a way.
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anyone can buy mac os and put it on their machine i bought a 5 licnese version of tiger i only have 3 macs so i put one licnese on my xbox and one on an old dell. its possible you just have to want to do it.
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You can install Virtual PC on any non-Intel Macs, however it on average many people have noticed that it runs quite painfully slow even if you maximize the memory. It Using Adobe products for Windows via VirtualPC is possible, however it will be frustratingly so slow (molasses-like slow).  \n\nIf you have any further Mac-related questions consider visiting and joining the free Apple Discussion forum: http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa
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It depends on your choice and why you want it if you want every day norma; or personal use I recommend you Arabian a lightweight distribution that you can  run  it from the cd without installing (Live cd) and then you can install it if you want. If you want it as a workstation or server you can try Fedora or SuSE.
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Check if the program you are trying to install is compatible with the operating system you are using.
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Screw Windows, get a Mac!
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There isn't. Mac OSX is entirely different from Windows and there is no chance the download would work on Windows. Plus those programs are mac exclusives so there's no PC Windows version either.
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You can make a copy of Mac Program on a CD-rom using any Windows XP CD authoring tool, there is no need for a MAC computer for doing that
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I'm pretty sure you can.  You shouldn't need any kind of boot loader.  I believe you can partition the drive (which I'm not exactly sure how to do), then run your installation disk and install OS X to both partitions and to boot between them, just startup in "Target Disk Mode".  Check out the help menu for instructions on Target Disk Mode.
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No way !!!\nMac OS only works for Mac Machines. . .\nYou only can do with your PC is that install Unix or Linix if you don't want to use Windows!!!
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If you bought a Macintrash to use Windows you wasted a lot of money.\n\nBuy a cheap PC, install Linux and Windows.  Not only will you have a *nix much better than MacOSX, but it's free.
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I'm assuming your Macs run on Mac OS X. Mac OS X also has a "sub-operating system" of Mac OS 9 which can run most older programs, so I'm thinking yes, it should be able to do it using the Classic OS 9. When you install the program and choose to run it, OS 9 should boot up automatically. \n\nGood Luck.