I didn't need a lot of sighted assistance, narrator will do a lot of it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "hank smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:57 PM Subject: Re: my fusion experiences:
you just need sighted assistance installing windows a auto unattended installation will not work under boot camp period ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:56 AM Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: > sure tim. bootcamp is esier to get along with too. > > On Nov 25, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Tim Grady wrote: > > Good. It's a good thing I don't have any heavy tasks. > On Nov 25, 2007, at 8:53 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> if you want to dedicate your full cpu resources to windows for heavy >> tasks, >> you would install bootcamp and dual boot so that when you are in window, >> it's all windows. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tim Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X >> by >> theblind" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 10:56 PM >> Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: >> >> >> Thanks. That's what I thought. Now, can you tell me what the >> advantage of installing bootcamp is? >> On Nov 24, 2007, at 4:57 AM, Jane Lee wrote: >> >>> Heyas! >>> A virtual appliance is just a fancy term for a pre installed and >>> configured virtual machine, so if you purchased a Windows virtual >>> appliance, it would be a pre-installed Windows. Some virtual >>> appliances are free, some aren't, and they all are for different >>> purposes. One I use is called JumpBox and it's a preinstalled OS with >>> Trac, a project management webapp. Saves me the time of having to >>> install and set things up. >>> >>> You definitely need a full copy of Windows to install in fusion. >>> >>> Lastly, I'm not completely sure, but I vaguely remember there being >>> unattended setup for one or both of the hypervisors for OS X where you >>> can just enter in a serial before installing the OS and it'll deal >>> with it for you. If not, there's ways to modify the install disk to >>> make it unattended. >>> >>> cheers, >>> jane >>> >>> On Nov 23, 2007 5:43 AM, David Poehlman >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I don't know what a virtual appliance is but it looks like you have >>>> to buy >>>> them. You deffinitely need a full copy of windows but it supports >>>> anything >>>> from at least .98 up and maybe even .95. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Tim Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac >>>> OS X by >>>> theblind" <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:49 AM >>>> Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: >>>> >>>> >>>> Would I be right to assume that you need a full copy of Windows. It >>>> looks that way from reading the manual, but then what is a virtual >>>> appliance and does it get installed under Windows? >>>> On Nov 22, 2007, at 12:01 AM, David Poehlman wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Tim, >>>>> >>>>> I guess it depends on your work style, in the beginning, I wanted to >>>>> be able to use windows and Mac os without having to carry two >>>>> computers around so bootcamp was the perfect solution. It's easy >>>>> enough to restart the system in either and the advantage of having a >>>>> fully running os are that everything works in windows which is not >>>>> or was not the case for me with fusion which pains me a bit due to >>>>> this project and I suspect I'll get more of them. I am going to do >>>>> some studying though because I found out some things today about the >>>>> vmware tools that may allow me to over come the problems at least on >>>>> the Imac. I found for instance that you can actually run vmware >>>>> tools from within windows instead of from the mac side which hides >>>>> the actions from us so I am going to give that a whirl but not any >>>>> time soon as I have spent a lot of hours recovering my systems from >>>>> this little experiment. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:02 PM, Tim Grady wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I don't know much about fusion so I am just asking, you can use a >>>>> virtual disk so what is the advantage of a windows partition? >>>>> On Nov 21, 2007, at 7:04 PM, David Poehlman wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I had been using bootcamp because I knew it would work. >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Tim Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac >>>>>> OS X by >>>>>> theblind" <[email protected]> >>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:20 PM >>>>>> Subject: Re: my fusion experiences: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Why did you decide to install bootcamp? >>>>>> On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:58 PM, David Poehlman wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I thought some might find interesting the experiences I've >>>>>>> gained by >>>>>>> installing and attempting to use fusion on my imac and macbook. I >>>>>>> decided >>>>>>> after going through this that fusion and most likely paralells is >>>>>>> not for >>>>>>> me. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I first installed it on my Macbook using bootcamp as the virtual >>>>>>> machine. >>>>>>> After a lot of trial and error, I realized that I was not going to >>>>>>> get jaws >>>>>>> activated nor was I going to settle the video intercept issue. I >>>>>>> have to >>>>>>> day though that I was favorably impressed with the ease of use and >>>>>>> accessibility of the vmware interface considering the complexity >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> the job >>>>>>> it has to do . >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I then proceeded to install it on my Imac this is a core2 duo >>>>>>> 2.16ghz system >>>>>>> with 3gb of ram and an 500gb hd. Again, I was impressed with the >>>>>>> interface >>>>>>> and also on both the speed of the final product although I didn't >>>>>>> perform >>>>>>> any heavy tasks. I was not impressed though by the number of >>>>>>> drivers I had >>>>>>> to reinstall and that I had to reinstall them each time I shut >>>>>>> down >>>>>>> and >>>>>>> restarted the vm. I guess without jaws in the mix, and a bit of >>>>>>> tinkering, >>>>>>> this could be a good solution. I only tried it ow because I >>>>>>> needed >>>>>>> a more >>>>>>> efficient environment in which to work, but I'll settle for two >>>>>>> computers >>>>>>> one for the windows side of the project and the other for the Mac >>>>>>> side of >>>>>>> it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Lastly, be warened, you will find your self having to reactivate >>>>>>> windows if >>>>>>> you use fusion after installing windows through bootcamp and if >>>>>>> you >>>>>>> decide >>>>>>> you want to just boot into windows directly, another activation >>>>>>> and >>>>>>> then if >>>>>>> you want to use fusion again, another activation... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > > >
