Hey Scott,
There's nothing to stop you from running virtual machines from an external
drive. As far as I know though, David is right about bootcamp only running
on an internal.
Minimum space depends a lot on what you want installed in Windows and which
flavour of Windows you want to use of course. To give you an example of XP
though, I have a virtual machine here that's sp2 and fully up to date with
Jaws installed and probably less than 50 MB of other random bits and bobs,
that comes to 3.3 GB. My windows instalation under bootcamp is around the
same size. So if you wanted to just use windows now and then, didn't need a
lot of stuff installed, and were planning to keep your actual data on the
mac partition, you could probably get by with 5 GB, although I'd give
yourself 10 to play with if you have the space just to be safe. Good news
is if you get the calculations wrong you can resize your bootcamp partition
without needing to do a reinstall i believe, and dynamic hard disks in
Fusion will save the day too space permitting.
Hope that helps
The other Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Can someone help with instaling windows?
I don't know about the vms, but from what I can tell, if you use bootcamp,
you can only put it on your internal hd but I don't have any other hds
mounted.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: Can someone help with instaling windows?
Hey just curious, can you put windows on a separate drive and what is
the absolute minimum space required.:) I am using Fusion as an eval
for the minute, but am really trying to decide if I want to spend the
money or jus run Bootcamp. I am only really needing windows for two
particular tasks, but I am going to see if the newer versions of
Fusion has been improved for Linux. I had some issues when testing it
initially
with some apps and choppy sound.
