[macvoiceover] Re: windows xp and bootcamp
- From: Bryan Smart <bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:45:25 -0500
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 bootcamp
why 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:55 AM
>> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: windows xp and bootcamp
>>
>>
>>> You 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 Windels
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