Hi Sabahattin, Thanks for this. I'd better not attempt anything as ambitious as you hinted at: I have far too little knowhow in programming.
you mentioned that the bootcamp partition onto which Windows 7 should have been installed should have been partitioned prior as ntf. I kind of assumed that Bootcamp would have done it before asking me on to which partition I wished to install Windows. I think I'd better leave this until I have understood the process better. By the way, when reading various support pages, is there a way of ascertaining how old the info on such pages is? This is rather crucial since we are now on El Capitan, and the recommended Bootcamp version for my macbook air late 2010 was 4.4 and yet El Capitan has a later version of Bootcamp, i.e. Bootcamp 6. So obviously the page where I got the info from can't have been the most recent one. Goodness knows whether Apple updates these pages or not. Best wishes Andrew > On 13 Jan 2016, at 20:28, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > BootCamp Assistant shows different checkboxes depending on whether or not > your Mac has a built-in (or formerly had a built-in) optical drive. If you > have, you don’t get the chance to use an ISO. Typically USB boot (from MBR) > is not supported on these models, so you will need the optical drive, one way > or the other. Unfortunately, yes, BootCamp Help assumes a modern Mac with no > optical drive, and simply doesn’t cover the case where you do not. That’s > progress, you know. :) > > You install onto the partition called “BOOTCAMP”, formatting it first to NTFS > in Windows Setup. You do not under any circumstances try to adjust the > partition tables. A separate, more involved process is used to get Windows > onto your Mac without a copy of OS X, which is unsupported by Apple. > > There is a hack by which means you can trick BootCamp Assistant into thinking > you have a modern Mac so you end up with a bootable USB drive. If you fancy > giving it a try, and don’t mind adjusting XML files in TextEdit and > re-signing the app, then I’ll see if I can’t help you with that. It isn’t > actually guaranteed to work, though. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
