
They range from creating clones of an existing PC installation or using Microsoft IT tools for installing Windows. There are actually a few ways you can successfully install Windows on an external drive. Installing Windows on an external drive would be a great solution to the problem of available space, but as we said, Boot Camp and Windows impose a restriction on installing to an external drive. While Boot Camp Assistant can partition your startup drive for you to make room for Windows, there are bound to be many of you who just don’t have room to spare on your startup drive to install Windows.

One of the downsides to Boot Camp and the Windows installer is that it restricts you to only installing Windows on your Mac’s internal drive.


It’s a nice capability that lets you select – at boot time – which operating system you wish to use: macOS or Windows. The quartz-wm window manager included with the XQuartz distribution uses the Apple Public Source License Version 2.Boot Camp and Boot Camp Assistant allow you to install Windows on your Mac. The X.Org software components’ licenses are discussed on the Please re-install the latest XQuartz X11 release for Leopard after installing a system software update to OS X 10.5.x Leopard.Īn XQuartz installation consists of many individual pieces of software which have various licenses. Because of this, you may experience conflicts after doing a Software Update from Apple. Since the XQuartz X11 package clobbers Apple's X11.app, their software update will clobber the XQuartz X11 package. OS X Software Updates have included some of the work done by the XQuartz project, but for various reasons, Apple cannot ship the latest and greatest version offered by the XQuartz site. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple shipped with OS X versions 10.5 through 10.7.

The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on macOS.
