Vista RTM guide?

[damado]

Is there a guide on installing Vista RTM on a mac pro and getting the drivers to all work? I had to slipstream my XP install for the chipset drivers b/c of that hard drive slowdown problem but I don't know if vista would have the same problem. Right now I'm just upgrading my working XP to vista just in case, but eventually I'd like to do a clean install. I've tried searching but most places I see are using RC1 from last year with several problems.

I'm not using bootcamp...I'm installing it on it's own hard drive.

Edit:
I upgraded and everything went fine except for 2 devices that I have no idea what they are. Hard drive is in UDMA5 and everything appears to be working ok. Sound video and all. Wish I knew why those two devices are showing up. Either way I want to do a clean install.

 

[wsgroves]

Yea im wondering about this too. I just purchased Vista Ult. and am looking for drivers for everything.

 

[CyberPrey]

Even with my XP install and the Apple drivers, I had 1 system device show up unknown...... Never could figure out what it was....

I would also be interested in going to vista, but not until I know all the drivers are there

 

[wsgroves]

Well i got vista ult up and running on my mac pro w/o any problems at all.
All the major hardware was found right off the bat.
I have a base system device and an unknown device but nothing that seems to degrade performance. Driver were found for the audio/networking etc without installing anything.
The base highest score is a 5.0 and the system scores a 5.9 on everything except the hd which is a 5.2.
My 8800 gtx video card works great with the new drivers and wow runs very nice although the framerates flux more then in xp for sure due to the immature drivers.

 

[Eidorian]

On my iMac Core Duo using Vista RC 2 EVERYTHING shows up short of the iSight in device manager.

The only issues that I had were the following that I resolved by extracting the Macintosh Driver installer 1.1.2.

1 Sound from the internal speakers (headphones worked)
Resolution: Installing the Sigmatel drivers

2. iSight
Resolution: Installing the iSight driver

3. Appletime and Brightness
Resolution: Copying appletime and brightness exe's into System32

4. Apple Keyboard Support
Resolution: Installing the Apple Keyboard Support driver and application.

Otherwise you what Vista ships with works fine.

Here's where I got my solution.

 

[ddma]

This is a very nicely written guide so far.

http://www.geocities.com/nja469/

 

[damado]

This is a very nicely written guide so far.

http://www.geocities.com/nja469/

Nice find, also remember the cinema display driver...the xp one works for me in vista. You can find it here