no. you insert your windows disc and click continue and the system restarts with the windows installer and you can hear a pin drop.
On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Bryan Smart wrote:I've only played a little with BootCamp in Snow Leopard, but doesn't the BootCamp assistant include one of those automatic setup assistants like VMWare has? You insert your Windows disk, enter your Windows product key in to the setup assistant, the Mac reboots, and Windows automatically installs. You don't need to mess with Windows unattended setup.
Windows XP shouldn't need 1.5GB of memory to run. The minimum requirement for XP is 256MB, and 512MB is enough to run it comfortably. 1GB would be enough if you planned on having many applications open at once. You should be careful about assigning too much memory to the virtual machine. If you assign too much to the VM, the VM will actually run slowly, since the memory available to the Mac OS, where the VMWare software is running, gets very tight. In that situation, you have a lot of memory set aside for Windows, but not enough for the Mac. Try 512MB or 768MB for the VM.
It probably isn't worth it to run in BootCamp unless you have to. Do you need all of the memory in your Mac for Windows because you're running a high-end memory-hungry application? Do you need Firewire support in Windows? BootCamp can help you with this. VMWare is much better at coexisting with the Mac OS, though.
Bryan -----Original Message-----From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover- bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Poehlman
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:33 AM To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: windows xp and bootcampwhy not bootcamp? as I said, some have done this and all you have to do is burn a disc with a real copy of xp on it and the script. I don't know more than that.
On Nov 4, 2009, at 12:16 AM, hank smith wrote: how does one do it with boot camp can you give step buy step directions?----- Original Message ----- From: "Ignasi Cambra" <ignasicambra@xxxxxxxxx >
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:05 PM Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: windows xp and bootcamp
Not bootcamp, any pc on which you want to install windows will allow it. The process is a little tricky if one doesn't know what he's doing, but it does work well most of the time... On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:29 PM, David Poehlman wrote:I don't want to belabor this but I have heard that if you create a bootable cd with the script on it, bootcamp will allow it. On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:26 PM, hank smith wrote: but he can't do auto unattended windows xp instalations ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTo: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:55 AM Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: windows xp and bootcampYou are better with what you have. some say you can install it unassistedly and you can see the windows partition on the mac side but not the reverse. if you use fat32 instead of ntfs, you can write to it from the mac side but there are drawbacks to using fat32 for your windows install. Bootcamp will allow you to make the partition bootable, that is what it is for. when you use it, it allows for a choice of which os to start at start up when you hold down the option key while powering up. On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:45 PM, william wrote: hello all, I have just red the different posts about this topic but I have still some questions: I have now vmware fusion 2.5 and window eyes with windows xp and this workswell except the speed. It works good in explorer but it works very slow in ms office. I have 2GB ram in my macbook and about 1500 MB is reserved for windows but this is still very slow. Is this to less of memory? I like windows on a virtual machine because you can easilly backup a whole installation and so, I have always a working system. But, When I should chose for bootkamp: - can I Make my self (as blind user) a file to install win xp automatically? - can I mount the windows partition from inside my mac? - can I make myself the right partitiontable to install windows? - what about re-installing windows or mac without destroying the other os? (problems wit bootrecords) So, how flexible is a blind user to manage the whole computer with 2 os on it. I have still leopard but I will soon upgrade to snow leopard. thanx a lot for your suggestions best regards, William WindelsClick 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 Webinterface 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/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/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 Webinterface 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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