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I have a Mac Pro with Leopard on it, and am just about ready to jump to SL. I figured that, while I'm at it, I'll partition the drive for BootCamp and install XP or W7 on it. But I thought I remember reading somewhere that it won't work if the drive is too fragmented. Is that true? Would I be better off if I clone my drive (which I do regularly anyway), wipe the existing boot drive, then clone it back? Or should I be ok with just letting BootCamp do its thing?
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Clone your drive first either way (and boot from the clone to confirm that it's good).
It's dangerous to resize partitions.
Once you've got a reliable clone to fall back on, you can try it any way you'd like.
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What Doc said.. and I would start with a clean instal of SL, then use migration assistant.
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The drive that Boot Camp goes on to cannot be partitioned the regular way. It has to start off with only one partition, and then let Boot Camp make a separate partition for Windows. If you try to do it with multiple partitions to begin with, it either won't work, or you will totally frag the OS and need to do a clean install (which is what I stoopitly did last year.)
