yes..u can!

To perform a fresh / clean installation of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to a totally blank/formatted hard drive using nothing but the upgrade DVD, do the following:

1. Boot from the Mac OS X Leopard Upgrade DVD (hold 'c' while booting).
2. Notice that the check for previous will fail (and "Continue" button is grayed out).
3. Choose the option of restoring from a Time Machine backup and go as far as you can (note: if you do actually have a Time Machine backup, pretend that you don't - making sure you've already removed any backup drives you may have plugged in).
4. Now go back to (almost) the initial screen.
5. Notice the "Continue" button is no longer grayed out...
6. Install Leopard while drinking a beer.

(source http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=380408)

This post has been edited by hairol83: Feb 19 2008, 12:42 PM

thanks hairol.. manage to do a fresh install but i ran out of beer

Anyway i tried installing my windows xp via bootcamp again and it still doesn't work. I think its due to the scratches on my xp cd and not much of a bootcamp problem

Looks like i gotta run out to the 'dark side' and get a copy of vista instead

just installed the combo update on my MBP, laggy, any idea on how to solve this?

hmm my macbook seems to work just fine. No lag. Maybe it's too little that i dont even realize it. But one thing i hate bout leopard is the time taken to shut down. Too long compared to Tiger

Finally got hold of a 'copy' of the latest vista. Now my bootcamp worked but was told to format my partitioned drive to NTFS format. How do i go about formatting it to NTFS?

yeah.. leopard is slower on booting and shut down if compare to tiger... i really like the fast booting on tiger!

You format it via the Vista installer. Just delete the partition without formatting via Mac and you should be OK.

yup did like wat u mention and now i got vista running

Just that on mac os i get a ugly looking drive icon with the title called 'untitled' which can be rename haha

ugly drive? can just change the icon mar and rename in vista OS.

Can't seem to change the icon wor. After i reformatted the bootcamp drive to NTFS using the vista installation, the drive seem to be only readable and not writable on mac os.

oh yea. but i using Paragon NTFS for mac. That's why can change the icon.

wats tat? paragon NTFS? darn mac is complicated lol.. everything is so new to me

oh...

by default, mac only can read NTFS, but cannot write. You need 3rd party application to make it write NTFS. Well, it is not apple fault, it is microsoft fault. Even linux also cannot write NTFS, but only since last few years ago, someone manage to develop it.

If you don't want to pay for Paragon NTFS, you can go with NTFS-3G. Works fine here.