EDIT: After hours of scouring, I found BootCamp 3 on the Internet Archive. Here's the full link in case the embedded link doesn't work: https://archive.org/details/bootcamp3
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I've acquired an Early 2009 Mac Pro that works rather quite well. I actually got it with a somewhat unusual plan in mind, which was to triple-boot it between macOS, Linux Lite, and Windows XP. It's currently running all three just fine (macOS El Capitan is the latest macOS it can run, and what it's running now), but the big issue I've got is actually finding the BootCamp drivers for Windows XP (32-bit).
I know it sounds silly wanting to run XP on hardware such as this, but the intent was to be able to run some of my older games on this machine, in addition to supporting some of my other Macs. EveryMac notes that the minimum supported Windows version on this particular model is XP SP2. I suppose it may not be correct, but until I get confirmation otherwise I'm gonna keep trying.
Sources online suggested using my macOS install disc while Windows is running to get it installed, but that's not how I installed El Capitan, I downloaded it directly from Apple's website and used one of my other Macs compatible with El Capitan to prepare a bootable drive.
Note for others - As I've discovered, Apple Silicon Macs can't prepare boot drives with older versions of macOS through means I'm aware of, because the Mac OS X install package won't run on an M-series chip (M1, M2), and the application file won't be extracted. To be clear, in order to create a bootable Mac OS X/macOS USB drive, you need to open the .dmg file and run the package file within, which will then create an Install Mac OS X/macOS application in your Applications folder. This application is what's needed to restore onto a USB thumb drive, but when running the package file on an Apple Silicon Mac, it refuses to extract the application file as the computer can't run it.
I've also looked all over for the specific support files, but the only one I've found was specifically for Windows 7 on this system, and using Windows 7 instead of XP could throw yet another wrench into things. The final thing I tried was to download the support files while booted into macOS El Capitan, and then reboot into XP. Well, attempting to run any of those installers basically made my XP installation barf all over itself and it failed to reboot, so now I'm reinstalling XP to the partition I created.
Also, I'm downloading the full 31GB Snappy Driver Installer file onto another flash drive. It's still going, so I can't really report how successful (or unsuccessful) it's been. Other than that, I'm out of ideas and would like some assistance with the matter.
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I've acquired an Early 2009 Mac Pro that works rather quite well. I actually got it with a somewhat unusual plan in mind, which was to triple-boot it between macOS, Linux Lite, and Windows XP. It's currently running all three just fine (macOS El Capitan is the latest macOS it can run, and what it's running now), but the big issue I've got is actually finding the BootCamp drivers for Windows XP (32-bit).
I know it sounds silly wanting to run XP on hardware such as this, but the intent was to be able to run some of my older games on this machine, in addition to supporting some of my other Macs. EveryMac notes that the minimum supported Windows version on this particular model is XP SP2. I suppose it may not be correct, but until I get confirmation otherwise I'm gonna keep trying.
Sources online suggested using my macOS install disc while Windows is running to get it installed, but that's not how I installed El Capitan, I downloaded it directly from Apple's website and used one of my other Macs compatible with El Capitan to prepare a bootable drive.
Note for others - As I've discovered, Apple Silicon Macs can't prepare boot drives with older versions of macOS through means I'm aware of, because the Mac OS X install package won't run on an M-series chip (M1, M2), and the application file won't be extracted. To be clear, in order to create a bootable Mac OS X/macOS USB drive, you need to open the .dmg file and run the package file within, which will then create an Install Mac OS X/macOS application in your Applications folder. This application is what's needed to restore onto a USB thumb drive, but when running the package file on an Apple Silicon Mac, it refuses to extract the application file as the computer can't run it.
I've also looked all over for the specific support files, but the only one I've found was specifically for Windows 7 on this system, and using Windows 7 instead of XP could throw yet another wrench into things. The final thing I tried was to download the support files while booted into macOS El Capitan, and then reboot into XP. Well, attempting to run any of those installers basically made my XP installation barf all over itself and it failed to reboot, so now I'm reinstalling XP to the partition I created.
Also, I'm downloading the full 31GB Snappy Driver Installer file onto another flash drive. It's still going, so I can't really report how successful (or unsuccessful) it's been. Other than that, I'm out of ideas and would like some assistance with the matter.
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