Hi, As far as I know, this isn't possible. I wish it was, though. IF someone has somehow found out how, I'd love to know. It doesn't look possible though. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Regards, Nic Mobile Me: [email protected] Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: [email protected] AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Brent Harding wrote: > Can I go the other way, buy fusion, install Windows, and dump that to a boot > camp partition some how? This Macbook is resisting all attempts, even with > sighted help, to even boot the windows disk, and I have two different ones. > One of them I know says it contains service pack 2, and they say nothing > about 64-bit, so they must be 32. I know the one for the desktop definitely > is. I was thinking with a VM of Windows, I could slip it on through the back > door. I tried the option key to boot, holding C, resetting the PRam, only > waited for 3 chimes, some people say to go as many as 5. I looked at a forum > post and someone said it's a bad luck of the draw because they have two of > the same model Macbook and one bootcamped and the other refused. Without > another Mac, how else can I get the partition loaded with XP? > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Alawami" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:01 PM > Subject: Re: parelells a complete waist of my time > > > I tried running 7 u8nder 512 mb of ram and it hurt totally. jaws studered and > it sounded owful. Here it is under 2 gigs. Sorry about the bad quality. I had > to plug in another osund card just to here the thing. > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1672188/vmware%20fudge%20up.mp3 > > I ran 32 gigs and had about 2 gigs left for the ram. the windows run under 2 > gigs 1 core. I have a dool core processer. Vocie over was still fine. > On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> As you discovered VMWare is pretty much the only accessible virtualization >> package on the mac. Sun's VirtualBox doesn't have an accessible GUI but it >> does have a command line interface, so it can still be used that way. As far >> as speed and performance goes, Windows beats on the hard drive a good bit so >> it can take a while to un-sludge after starting up, especially if your Mac >> is trying to access the drive at the same time. Also need to check how much >> RAM you have left. My MacBook has 3GB so if I run 1.5GB for VMWare that only >> leaves 1.5GB for the Mac. If the Mac runs out it starts doing 'virtual >> memory' which swaps older chunks of RAM to the hard drive which is orders of >> magnitude slower than real RAM. So, if your Windows virtual machine pounds >> the hard drive and you trigger some virtual memory swapping to hard drive >> you're in for a world of hurt. You might actually be faster with that 512MB >> virtual machine and not triggering memory swapping. >> >> CB >> >> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> Hello. I decided to try parelells and found it to be inaccessibal with mac >>> voice over. if it is can someone shead some lite on this? this is driving >>> me nuts! >>> >>> Thaks. >>> >>> S >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
