I've been following this discussion and am glad you got it working. I don't know how to do that so I couldn't offer advice but it's interesting to me that people run Windows on a Mac. I never thought about the machine being nice and small and the hardware being really good and that was why people wanted to put Windows on it. I had always assumed people bought Macs to escape from Windows but I guess that is not always true.
I don't really understand this virtual stuff. Is Windows really there? smileJust kidding, I guess it is there, but being run by another program or something?
Please keep the interesting topics coming! Sara----- Original Message ----- From: "David Truong" <bnfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:22 PMSubject: [macvoiceover] Thanks all, got it working was: Really need help with VMWare Fusion and Windows on a Mac Mini.
HI Cheryl,Well, after reading your message and taking a lot of your advice, I have theVMWare playing ball and now have windows on my Mac Mini. Thank Christ isall I can say. I really appreciated those suggestions you gave me to checkon especially regarding how long the installation of windows can take. Ittook an hour and a bit for mine. Also, I did as you suggested, as soon as Iwas sure Windows had installed, I did the command+g and then typed in my password. However, I sort've did it in blind faith as I wasn't given any feedback whether I was on the right field or not but never mind it worked.I knew though that you had succeeded so I thought it should be right and it was. I managed to get narrator going and Now it's working great. I have myscreen reader on there and have windows configured to how I like it. Justabout to install some programs on it. You know I am so happy now that I canuse windows on such a small machine and I know the apple hardware is great even if the os isn't my cup of tea. So thanks to you and all of you who helped in getting me the best of both worlds smile. David Truong EMail and Messenger: davidtruong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Skype: blindboxer1967 -----Original Message----- From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 10:31 AM To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: [macvoiceover] Re: Really need help with VMWare Fusion and Windowson a Mac Mini. Ok, here are things to check. First of all, my installation has been known to take longer than half an hour; I'd leave it for an hour to be safe.Second, you don't say whether you logged in with your password before tryingto install vmware tools. What I do is leave the cd in when I think it's doneand do cmd-g to direct input inside the virtual machine and type my passwordand hit enter. If it's installed and your sound is working, you should hear the xp startup music. then I go into the menus and do "install vmware tools"or "up[date vmware tools" whichever it says. You'll get a dialog to confirmyou want to do that and later if you go back that same menu item says"cancel vmware tols installation" but it never changes. Just leave it for afew minutes and then restart with cmd-u r (cmd is the windows key). Third, before trying to get narrator up or even before trying to type yourpassword and start, did you use vokeys and check whether sound is connectedand whether whatever speakers you are using are connected? Sorry, I'm not getting this in order, but I thought the virtual machine could only do 20GB; your post says you are changing it to 100gb. Also, how much memory do you have; do you have a gb of memory to give and still have enough for macosx. Those are the things I can think of offhand. Also, Narrator has thisannoying dialog the first time it starts up so if you have a talking installcd for jaws or windoweyes I'd just put that in, but I'd do that after starting so you know you can hear the startup music and your sound isworking, and I'd do it after the vmware tools install and restart, when youshould again hear the startup music but remember you'll have to give it aminute or two for the restart and then enter your password if you have one;it won't start up without your password. If you don't think you've installed correctly, I'd just remove the whole Virtual Machines directory from you Documents directory if you don't have any other virtual machines there and start over. It really does work well once you get it going; I had a little trouble the first time but I reinstalled recently and it went much more smoothly. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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