HI Cheryl,
Well, after reading your message and taking a lot of your advice, I
have the
VMWare playing ball and now have windows on my Mac Mini. Thank
Christ is
all I can say. I really appreciated those suggestions you gave me
to check
on especially regarding how long the installation of windows can
take. It
took an hour and a bit for mine. Also, I did as you suggested, as
soon as I
was 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 my
screen reader on there and have windows configured to how I like
it. Just
about to install some programs on it. You know I am so happy now
that I can
use 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
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-----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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Really need help with VMWare Fusion and
Windows
on 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 trying
to install vmware tools. What I do is leave the cd in when I think
it's done
and do cmd-g to direct input inside the virtual machine and type my
password
and 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
confirm
you 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 a
few 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 your
password and start, did you use vokeys and check whether sound is
connected
and 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 this
annoying dialog the first time it starts up so if you have a
talking install
cd 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 is
working, and I'd do it after the vmware tools install and restart,
when you
should again hear the startup music but remember you'll have to
give it a
minute 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."
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