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Installing vista on my mac?
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I believe no one has replied because this is a well known "how to" in the Mac community and is easily solved by a quick google search or using your Mac's built in help. However, to answer your question, simply use the Bootcamp setup assistant in your Utilities folder.
Here's my recommended Setup:
Partition your hard drive into 3 partitions while booted into Leopard.
1) You Mac OS X partition, formatted to NFS (already done)
2) A 'Windows' partition, formatted into MS-FAT32. Now, Windows Vista requires NTFS+. When installing Vista, select this partition and format it to NTFS+. It is important that you FIRST format to MS-FAT32 in Mac OS X, or else the install won't be able to re-format. Since Vista requires NTFS+, and Mac OS X can only READ NTFS+, this presents a small issue if you ever want to file share between the two OSs, hence.............
3) Create a third partition as a swap drive, formatted to MS-FAT32.
Now install onto Partition 2 and your good to go. On each System, you'll see a SWAP drive and a system drive.
Partition your hard drive into 3 partitions while booted into Leopard.
1) You Mac OS X partition, formatted to NFS (already done)
2) A 'Windows' partition, formatted into MS-FAT32. Now, Windows Vista requires NTFS+. When installing Vista, select this partition and format it to NTFS+. It is important that you FIRST format to MS-FAT32 in Mac OS X, or else the install won't be able to re-format. Since Vista requires NTFS+, and Mac OS X can only READ NTFS+, this presents a small issue if you ever want to file share between the two OSs, hence.............
3) Create a third partition as a swap drive, formatted to MS-FAT32.
Now install onto Partition 2 and your good to go. On each System, you'll see a SWAP drive and a system drive.
^ the swap partition seems highly unnessessary. you cant create 3 partitions with Boot Camp Assistant and Disk Utility in Leopard can only create HFS+ partitons non destructively.
so gamerz as econoline06 suggested create a partition with Boot Camp Assistant, insert the Vista DVD and restart, format the partition (C and install Vista. then use the Leopard DVD to install the drivers.
so gamerz as econoline06 suggested create a partition with Boot Camp Assistant, insert the Vista DVD and restart, format the partition (C
and install Vista. then use the Leopard DVD to install the drivers.Yeah, all depends on your usage. I had no trouble, however, with creating the extra partitions.
And the swap drive is quite useful to me, since I regularly create images in Vista with an 'old' copy of Photoshop I already had and copy them to Mac OS X.
did you have to erase your hard disk to create 3 partitions? im guessing the OP doesnt want to have to go thru this.
Yes, BootCamp is free and is already included on your Intel mac. Just look into Applications -> Utilities as others have mentioned.
Q? Huh?
EDIT: Looked up Q... OP: Boot Camp lets you BOOT into Windows whereas Q only emulates it in a Mac OS X window. Boot Camp will give you native speed. Q on the other hand, won't.
might i also suggest a virtual machine?
Virtual machines let you run windows and mac os x at the same time.
if you're looking for something like that, vmware fusion, paralells desktop, and sun's virtual box are great programs for it.
if youre interested, do a forum search and you can find more information on them.
Virtual machines let you run windows and mac os x at the same time.
if you're looking for something like that, vmware fusion, paralells desktop, and sun's virtual box are great programs for it.
if youre interested, do a forum search and you can find more information on them.
