reviving an older post...
i recently tried slipstreaming in parallels and was able to successfully create a bootable xp sp2 disc...all without using a PC and all done on my mac. except that it won't install via boot camp. here's what i did...someone tell me where i went wrong:
1. in the latest rc version of parallels, i installed xp and downloaded sp2. using
paul thurrott's instructions for slipstreaming, i was able get all the way to the burn disc part. since the burning feature of the disc drive is not yet supported in parallels, i could not burn a boot CD.
2. using a demo version of nero burning ROM (version 6.x), i instead created a disc image of the slipstreamed install disc.
3. using the network settings in parallels and also turning on windows network setting in "Sharing" on my mac, i transferred the disc image to my mac partition.
4. using toast titanium 7, i burned the disc image to a CD and used boot camp to install. it read the install disc at first, but then it asked that i "Insert Disc in Drive A" and would not get past that.
5. i recreated the disc, instead mounting the image on my mac and doing a disc copy of the mounted disc. same thing happened when i tried to install.
the slipstreaming part was no problem. it created the sp2 disc without a hitch, making sure to have the .iso file and all that stuff paul says in his instructions. i'm wondering if it's not possible to copy a windows bootable disc using toast on a mac, even though all i'm doing is basically copying a disc (in this case, a disc image). anyone have any thoughts? if it worked, i would have like to have written a little tutorial on creating an sp2 slipstreamed disc entirely on a mac. oh well...
