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Windows Vista Beta 2 Download
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Thanks for the link. I was much more excited about this back when the public beta was supposed to come out in february. Will this run in parallels?
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=2497333panoz7 said:
I'm going to download it in a couple of days when the initial rush dies down and try it out in Parallels. I'm not excited about it at all, just a nerd who wants to try as many OSs as possible on his Mac.
plinden said:
It will not work on Parallels because the BIOS they use is not ACPI compatible. It is also not possible on an upgrade from an XP.
I believe the developers who made Parallels have said they they do intend to add support for Vista is in a later version.
Right now I think the only way to run Vista on your Mac is to install via Boot Camp and delete the EFI partition.
beloved84 said:im installing!
cool keep us updated. If it works with the gma950, airport & bluetooth fully supported it will be mighty
seems sketchy.....take windows XP which as been around a for a while and how flakey that is... now take vista which has been delayed for how many months in a beta 
Finally got the first part of the install done. I'm reparing the MBR as we speak. 4 OS's on a single laptop I can't wait.
beloved84 said:when i finished installing vista... it restarted and lead me to this...and it freezes
Rerun the install but instead of a full install do a repair install of the MBR. Heres a link to the full instructions
http://blogs.msdn.com/hans_vb/archiv...03/615869.aspx
I just finished the repair part and its restarting again wohoo!
I have it downloading now. I can use this under Boot Camp to use my Windows only software, right?
I got it working on my 2.0 MB the fan got loud as hell though. Wired ethernet works out of the box. No sound, wireless, BT out of the box. Generic Video drivers. I'll keep you all updated as soon as I get home. To the other poster that was at the same point as me. Follow those directions that I linked you to. I was stuck at the same point but by doing the repair isntall I got it working with no issues. Good luck.Dude, I want it so bad. Is there any place I can get it besides microsoft's website? I have my product key already, but it says it is too busy.
treblah said:
Says access denied... Hmm... I wonder if anyone could send me the ISO in an email or something?
This is from the blog link I supplied...jdiddy said:
"1) Network drivers:
Ive been told that the wired network card should work out of the box but the wireless network card doesnt even if it shows in the Device Manager. In my case, what did you expect, none of them worked.
I downloaded the Yukon Gigabit drivers for XP here: http://marvell.com/drivers then updated the driver for my ethernet card (Or it could have been that I updated the driver for the so called wireless card with this driver too. There was something twisted.) with a version 853 or something like that. Sorry I cant be more precise. Now the driver version for the card shows as 9.0.16.3. Once the wired connection worked, I ran Windows Update and that detected and installed the driver for the wireles card. So now both are working."
try that if you could
WTF?! I went back to try to download it again, and it says that I have the largest amount of product keys I can have! Well, I haven't downloaded it yet. So I am sort of you know what.
