HOWTO: Install Vista Beta 2 on a MacBook Pro

[lexus]

Thank you very much for making this thread I am still downloading the .iso it takes so long!!!

 

[Krevnik]

6. Delete 2 partitions directly after your OS X partition. Then create a new partition and format it. Select this new partition as the one to install Vista onto. I do not know that if this is necessary but I did not have to repair the install using this 'method'.

Beta 2 (the final one) doesn't actually need to be repaired at all it seems. I got 5384 to install clean without performing this step.

 

[zigzag]

1. It only needs a repair if you install it before deleting the 200 MB partition.

2. Your Mac will not function properly without the EFI partition. You will need to do a clean reinstall of the entire system (ie. Repartition *and* erase the HD, reinstall Mac OS X) in order to get it back to normal operating.

3. There's nothing good about it, really isn't worth the time.

 

[lexus]

I tried it on my MacBook and it did not work at all.

 

[mooncaine]

I just can't seem to get Aero to work on my Intel Mini (Core Duo, 1GB RAM, 100 GB HD). When I run performance rating I get a score of 2. It says I have 256 MB graphics memeory so that shouldn't be an issue. What does a score of 2 mean?

I'm not sure, but I think you're mistaken about your graphics memory. I think all Mac minis have offered no more than 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM. This may explain the problem? I don't know, as I haven't even tried BootCamp and XP yet.

 

[Mord]

the vram is governed by the driver and in windows it's a different driver.

to get aero on gma 950 you have to use the lakeport driver to replace both 945g drivers in the device manager.

 

[astral]

Anyone that's installed Vista tried to use Macdrive? I don't think I'll bother if i can't see my hfs partitions.

 

[biohazard6969]

i want to share a bit of advice from personal experience. DON'T try and install vista. i tried, and gotr rid of the efi partition and everything all to find out that vista needs more than 10 GB partition, so now i'm stuck with a partition that my mac can't write to, that's taking up a wholwe 10 GB on my PORTABLE machine... i can't repartition without losing all my info, and although i have a ton of extra hard drives i could copy my info to, this is a very tedious task and i honestly don't have the time or the patience, i'll probably get around to it when i actually need the space, or i might actually put XP back on there again but either way now i have no more flexibility with the loss of boot camp


i would strongly advise not doing this

 

[Mord]

cant you just format the partition back to HFS, or at least FAT32

 

[JonD25]

How would you get wireless working if you don't have a wired network to connect to? I'm on a college campus, and I don't currently have access to a wired network, so I can't go to Windows Update to download the wireless driver.

 

[Mord]

you get annother computer and share the internet connection over firewire or ethernet to your imac.

 

[JonD25]

you get annother computer and share the internet connection over firewire or ethernet to your imac.

Well, I tried that. But I'm not very knowledgeable about getting this kinda stuff to work in Windows. I have another computer that's running Windows to share the connection, and then of course I have Vista which would be connected to my laptop via ethernet, but whatever I was trying wasn't working. Could I need another driver for the ethernet too?

EDIT: Ok, my ethernet card should be working, as the driver is installed and working. But something as simple as connecting to the internet through another computer isn't so simple. In OSX, it's pretty easy, as I did it to make sure I had it working right on the host side. But in Vista, it seems impossible. Please help.

EDIT 2: Ok, I got it working by using the driver that comes with Boot Camp.

 

[fugazi26]

Has anyone tried installing Vista on the entire hd and then re-installing os x? Then boot to os x and install bootcamp and the firmware update? Did that seem to work?

 

[kingcrowing]

Well I'm psyched to try out Vista on my Macbook Pro, but I'm still a bit nervous about deleting the EFI partition, I think I'm just gonna stick with XP for now and wait till leapoard with full bootcamp comes out, and then try vista when its officially out

 

[drrjv]

10. Insert your "Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP" CD and click start and in the search box type run and hit enter. You need to add 2 switches to the run dialogue so after you navigate to the "Install Mac Drivers.exe" click open. Then add /A /v the command. It should look something like
"D:\Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP.exe" /A /v
This will extract the drivers without running the install program which is incompatible with Vista. You should now have a Program Files and System32 folder wherever you extracted the .exe

I can't get the ""D:\Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP.exe" /A /v" to work. It keeps trying to do the Install (which fries Vista).

Windows Update tries to install the Broadcom driver but when it does, I get an 'INI' error.

Can anyone help me with the file extract?

 

[JonD25]

I can't get the ""D:\Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP.exe" /A /v" to work. It keeps trying to do the Install (which fries Vista).

Windows Update tries to install the Broadcom driver but when it does, I get an 'INI' error.

Can anyone help me with the file extract?

Do you have access to XP anywhere? Maybe try extracting them in XP and then taking them over to Vista?

 

[ipodboy61]

for some reason my mbp has a red light were the headphone output is.
It started when i put vista on it. is this suppost to happen?

here some pics
http://myspace.com/ipodboy61

its my myspace.

 

[JonD25]

for some reason my mbp has a red light were the headphone output is.
It started when i put vista on it. is this suppost to happen?

I dunno, but I noticed it on my iMac too. Not too sure why.

 

[5683565]

That's because it's an optical out, not just a stereo output.

 

[JonD25]

That's because it's an optical out, not just a stereo output.

I know that. But it doesn't light up when in OSX.

 

[sparcdr]

Optical out and Sigmatel driver

The Sigmatel XP driver and pane toggle the optical audio out on by default. OSX I believe detects if you plug it in then lights up.

 

[AMRivlin]

Ok got all this setup, thanks for the guides and experiences guys.

Missing two major things!!!

How do you RIGHT CLICK!?

How do I disable the endless warnings about loading the next window.

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Control Click doesn't work?

and, when I used vista, I tried to look for that but no go.

 

[AMRivlin]

Well my way to solve it was: Attach my MX1000, and 2 clicked on something to turn it off. I can't remember what, but MS has to realise the endless prompts are out of control.

And no Control Click did not work for me. Only in OSX.

While Vista isn't earth shattering, this gives me a great option when I have PC stuff to run.

I am using someone elses key, will it shut me out in 14 days if I don't activate? Anyone willing to share a personal / valid key with me?

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Yeah, the prompts are extremely annoying - it's why I uninstalled it.

They would pop up by opening Internet Explorer.