Naw...I understand the concept that was in the linked article that's
why I put "virtual" in parenthesis....but maybe that was a poor way
of saying it.
By "virtual" I meant a partition that can be created without having
to reformat the whole drive like we did in the past. I guess non-
destructive covers that though.
Thanks for the links....a few people have made mention (or quoted
sources) of the possibility of virus issues but nothing in detail
yet. I just don't want to go updating the firmware on my machine so
it will run windows until I know what that will open my machine up to
with viruses, spyware etc.
I guess we will hear more in the next few days.
-K
On Apr 5, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I think you have that wrong.
"The coolest thing about the assistant is that it *does a non-
destructive repartitioning of your boot drive*. In other words, you
don't need unpartitioned space to install Boot Camp, just free
space within your Mac's existing boot partition. Choose your
partition size within Boot Camp Assistant and go."
Which, to me, means it takes free space from your HD, and allocates
that for a new parition. It's not a "virtual" partition like, say,
Virtual PC did (does, or whatever), which, if I remember correctly,
was a huge file that would exist on your Mac HD.
I suggest reading:
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php
and
http://www.macrumors.com/
and
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
Karen wrote:
This is how it all works...it is quite interesting.
http://tinyurl.com/fknzx
Apparently, a "virtual" partition is created and that is where XP
lives. My only question is if this "firmware update" that allows
Window to run on the Intel Macs poses potential virus/worm etc.
issues that up until now we have been immune from. (yes..yes...I
know. It is partially that there aren't as many people trying to
write nasty little pieces of code for the Mac.) But Open Firmware
was more secure than the Microsoft BIOS. So I am really curious
as to how exactly the firmware update changes EFI in it's current
state.
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