Parallels + Windows 7 on 11.6" MBA?

[Divers]

Hi Everyone,

I ordered a 11.6" MBA today (1.6GHz, 4GB, 128GB RAM) and am planning on installing Parallels and Windows 7. I was planning on sharing the optical drive on my 15" i7, but after doing some reading it seems as though I cannot load Windows 7 onto my MBA from a computer that is not currently running Windows 7.

Does anyone have any other ideas? I really don't want to buy the external drive just to install Windows 7.

Thanks in advance,

Divers

 

[thelookingglass]

I have no idea if what you say is actually the case. But, if it is, can't you just run Parallels from your other computer and install that way?

 

[Kermy]

You can probably use Disk Utility to make an image of the Windows 7 dvd and then have parallels install it from the image file.

 

[Rob.G]

Something else to consider maybe.... VirtualBox. Run Windows 7 in a virtual session in OSX. I'm doing that right now (well, Windows XP) and it's great. I run SQL Server and other stuff on it that I need for software development, plus the local stuff on my Mac like Eclipse.

Rob

 

[barrettj]

Hi Everyone,

I ordered a 11.6" MBA today (1.6GHz, 4GB, 128GB RAM) and am planning on installing Parallels and Windows 7. I was planning on sharing the optical drive on my 15" i7, but after doing some reading it seems as though I cannot load Windows 7 onto my MBA from a computer that is not currently running Windows 7.

Does anyone have any other ideas? I really don't want to buy the external drive just to install Windows 7.

Thanks in advance,

Divers

If you have parallels installed on the other machine, create the windows 7 virtual machine on that computer and then copy the virtual machine to the MBA.

 

[fswmacguy]

Your best bet is to use a computer with a DVD drive to copy the disc into a disk image, then just move the disk image to your new MBA.