[macvoiceover] Re: Thanks all, got it working was: Really need help with VMWare Fusion and Windows on a Mac Mini.

  • From: "David Truong" <bnfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:38:54 +1000

Ok,

I'll give it to you for 5 bucks but you pay the shipping from Australia
smile. 

-----Original Message-----
From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of vashaun jones
Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 10:43 PM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Thanks all, got it working was: Really need help
with VMWare Fusion and Windows on a Mac Mini.

Do you want to sell your Mac then? I would buy it in a heartbeat.
On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:36 AM, David Truong wrote:

> HI Dave,
>
> I don't need to finish studying the mac to know that it isn't for me.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Poehlman
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 10:18 PM
> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Thanks all, got it working was: Really  
> need help
> with VMWare Fusion and Windows on a Mac Mini.
>
> David,
>
> You said yourself you have limitted experience with osx.  You cannot  
> say
> then having not finished your *training* that windows is easier even  
> for you
>
> because you have not given it a proper chance.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Truong" <bnfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:09 AM
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Thanks all, got it working was: Really  
> need help
>
> with VMWare Fusion and Windows on a Mac Mini.
>
>
> Hi Mate,
>
> Fair enough and I'm truly sorry for looking on the Mac that way.   
> But if
> what you say is true, and there isn't any reason I can think of why it
> wouldn't be then no doubt I'll be converted sooner than later smile.
>
> I know what you mean about reliability and hence why I'm trying this  
> mac
> mini.  But I just love the windows interface reliable or not.  It is  
> so easy
> to use and even better so easy to teach non-computing people.  Put the
> reliable factor into it by putting it on reliable hardware and  
> that'll do
> me.  I don't really buy into that other stuff you talk about.  Don't  
> get me
> wrong, I am not disagreeing with you, just telling you how it is for  
> me and
> if that makes me an outcast then so be it smile.  But I trust the Mac
> community aren't like the Unix community who tend to shun those who  
> have a
> different point of view or outlook to them smile.
>
> David Truong
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lewis Brock
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 9:40 PM
> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Thanks all, got it working was: Really  
> need help
> with VMWare Fusion and Windows on a Mac Mini.
>
> its a bit of a shame to look on the mac in that way.
>
> when you invest in  apple hardware, you get security, stability, raw
> power, an operating system that delivers much more than any other OSon
> the market could ever  do, the best technical support, a cover plan
> you can rely on and so much more. using a macintosh really changes the
> way that people think of computing. none of the stress of windows
> hell, stupid driver issues etc. just a pure solid structure. not just
> that but bloomin good design. you take on a mac for its raw potential.
> not to just float windows on it and not even bother using the OS X
> system.
>
> really spend time to think of what you are going to do with the mac,
> find solutions rather than sitting on your hands doing nothing. the
> mac is a new way of life and not a windows case decorated by an apple
> badge.
>
>
>
> lew
>
>
> On 22 Apr 2008, at 12:33, David Poehlman wrote:
>
>> well, you are missing huge advantages but that is your choice.  I
>> didn't
>> migrate to mac os due to an ego.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Truong" <bnfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:26 AM
>> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Thanks all, got it working was: Really
>> need help
>> with VMWare Fusion and Windows on a Mac Mini.
>>
>>
>> HI Mate,
>>
>> Fair enough too.  If you love the Mac then that's great.  My reason
>> for
>> using the Mac is simple.  I've heard and believe that the Mac
>> operating
>> system and its associated hardware is very reliable.  That is the
>> Windows
>> weak point no doubt about that.  I don't believe any of the other bS
>> being
>> said about windows as it has been great to me except for its
>> unreliability.
>> So I figured get my favourite operating system interface wise along
>> with all
>> of my favourite programs and put it on a reliable platform as well
>> as on a
>> really small pc = Mac Mini.  NO point relearning new programs just
>> to boosts
>> ones ego.  I use computers for what it can do for me and I don't see
>> the Mac
>> offering me anything else more apart from reliability.
>>
>> David Truong
>>
>> EMail and Messenger:
>> davidtruong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Skype:  blindboxer1967
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith Reedy
>> Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 3:27 PM
>> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Thanks all, got it working was: Really
>> need help
>> with VMWare Fusion and Windows on a Mac Mini.
>>
>> Hi Sara,
>>
>> I am sure that some folks need to run Windows for one reason or
>> another.  Maybe they have expensive programs that they use for work  
>> or
>> something like that.  However, as for me, I run a MAC because of its
>> ease of use, it does everything I need in my office and because, it
>> just works.  Up until 3 years ago I had been a windows user.  I had
>> used JFW and Window-eyes and before that DOS, but I had never found
>> anything that has maid me more productive than the MAC.  The  
>> Voiceover
>> screen reader is very nice, very quick, responsive and a pleasure to
>> use, but the real pluss for me is the MAC platform.  Keyboard  
>> commands
>> for the most part are the same from program to program, it does not
>> have the history of crashing as with other platforms, the updates are
>> really helpful and I can't think of anything that I did with windows
>> that I can not do easier and faster with the MAC.  In short, it just
>> works.
>>
>> The screenreader on the MAC is not loaded on just a few thousand  
>> MACS,
>> but, millions of MACS.  I can walk in to a growing number of public
>> places, press command-f5 on a MAC and go to work.
>>
>> The thing I try to make important to wood-be MAC users is in order to
>> use the MAC affectively, is to remember that the MAC platform  is a
>> different platform, a simpler platform a more user friendly platform.
>>
>> To those of you who are using Windows on the MAC, please take the  
>> time
>> to learn the MAC.  Your life will change for the better and you will
>> be glad that it did.
>>
>> Keith Reedy
>>
>>
>> On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:51 PM, Sara wrote:
>>
>>> 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? smile
>>> Just 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 PM
>>> Subject: [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 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
>>>>
>>>> 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@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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