MGS wrote Anybody know whether it is possible for a dual boot yet? Or a VM? I'm familiar with Linux however I don't know whether I want this or not...

I've never seen it dual booted before as I think you need a formatted HDD.

I've not tried this yet, but it seems to me that you could just partition a current HDD so you could install to that partition. I don't know as I have not tried. Will try when I am home.

Edit: Does not look like it would be possible. Found this.

Selected "Automated install" from the menu.
The rest of the installation is unattended and will repartition the drive and install SteamOS.

If you can do a custom install might be able to. I don't know if possible.

Kyle93 wrote I've not tried this yet, but it seems to me that you could just partition a current HDD so you could install to that partition. I don't know as I have not tried. Will try when I am home.

Edit: Does not look like it would be possible. Found this.

Selected "Automated install" from the menu.
The rest of the installation is unattended and will repartition the drive and install SteamOS.

If you can do a custom install might be able to. I don't know if possible.

I think i tried that but it still wanted to wipe the whole drive as it creates it's own partitions.

Just a small update from Steam. SteamOS now with non-UEFI support.

John Vert, a Valve representative, jumped on the Steam Universe group on Monday and announced the release of a new SteamOS disk image (ISO) that doesn't require UEFI. This official version stems from one that was created by the community called Ye Olde SteamOSe, which also allows users to dual-boot, among other "improvements."

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