Hi Shawn, I'm a little confused too and thus a bit nervous because having read the supporting documentation on Apple's support pages for windows 7 - which is the version I want to install via bootcamp on my 2010 macbook air - I don't know whether I can install windows 7 from its disk which I have or whether I must create an .iso image from teh the original disk and use that. Why or why aren't instructions from the gurus ever clear? :) Although I chose to read the page on installing windows 7, I get an impression that some steps are meant for installation of windows 8 or higher. SOS! What is going on? Do I use my original installation windows 7 disk, or not? I understand that the flush drive is only for bootcamp windows drivers to be copied onto during the process and once windows is installed, one has to run the drivers from the usb flush drive.
Andrew > On 4 Jan 2016, at 06:52, BBS <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. I'm confused. Are we installing Windows to the flash drive via Bootcamp > or are we installing it to the Mac? I've been thinking of going back to > Bootcamp with Windows 10 because this thing runs terribly slow with it under > VMWare Fusion. Look forward to your reply. > > > Shawn > Sent From My White MacBook > > Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk > Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs > Skype Username: bbstheblindrapper > Facetime username: [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon Fogarty > Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2016 11:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Installing Windows 7 under bootcamp without sighted assistance > > HI Andrew, > > Yeah done it a few times, and have windows 10 currently on my mac book air > under bootcamp. > > I've tried installing it with out assistance but it appears no go at least I > haven't found a way yet. > > It's pretty easy really, run the Boot camp assistant in the Mac OSX and then > follow the prompts. > > All you need now is an ISO of the windows installer package and a USB / flash > drive with more than 8GIG of available storage > > Once bootcamp finishs what it needs to do the machine restarts in to the > windows installation the problem we have is that apple / windows drivers are > not installed until the very last stage of the setup, > > > If you have the ISO on your desktop then bootcamp should pick it up without > problem and you then only need to make sure the flash drive is selected as > bootcamp writes / downloads the apple windows bootcamp drivers to the flash > drive. > And then that's where windows is actually installed from. > Oh and the only thing to be aware of is the step that asks you to set the > drive partition size by default it only gives you 20GB > > Hope this helps. > > Simon F > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Lamanche > Sent: Monday, 4 January 2016 5:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Installing Windows 7 under bootcamp without sighted assistance > > Hi, > > Has anyone on the list had experience of installing Windows 7 in Bootcamp > without sighted assistance? Having looked at the process on Apple's support > pages, I can see that it is probably not possible. Also, even if sighted > assistance is required, would you mind sharing your experience? Please feel > free to write off list. 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