Is Mac Mini support IBM PC compatible?

So, not only Windows. Linux, DOS, and others, can I install them, and how to select the operating system when booting?

Hi,
use the free VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/ for that as it supports quite a large number of guest OSes http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes
Natively apart from using Apples BootCamp http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ to install Windows there are ways to install Ubuntu Linux https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages on a Mac.
MS-DOS to my knowledge cannot be installed but rather be used with DosBox http://www.dosbox.com/
After all the Mac uses a different partition scheme as (GPT - GUID Partition Table) than MS-DOS or Windows (MBR - Master Boot Record) and thus cannot handle Extended Partitions which limits the number of MBR-compatible partitions on a harddisk to four.
From these four partitions two are already used by OSX itself.
Regards
Stefan

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