Hi listers, While this may be not totally related to accessibility, it does effect voiceover. And I thought it'd be a good thing to have for the archives.
If you are thinking about installing Windows Vista or Windows 7, be sure to allocate half the drive to OSX and the other half to Windows. The mistake I made was to give only 20GB to Vista. The result was 22 mb free and windows going into an endless reboot cycle. Here is where it may save some people trouble if you already have a 20gb partition with windows vista or 7. The easiest way to resolve this issue is by getting a utility called Win Clone. Win clone images your windows partition, and allows you to delete the bootcamp partition using bootcamp utility and then you are able to recreate the bootcamp partition with bc util and split the drive in half. Here is the problem. Win clone will not work under Lion, only 10.5 and 10.6. The work around is to edit /system/library/core-services/SystemVersion.plist and edit the lines with "10.7" with "10.6.6" By doing this, it renders all system applications unusable, even voiceover, if it happens to crash or if you turn it off, and you will need a backup copy of SystemVersion.plist. The reason you need a backup copy, is not only is it a good idea to always have the original, but you will not be able to open text edit. As soon as you replace SystemVersion.plist again over your modified one everything will work again. Even though modifying this file will allow Win Clone to run, it still will not be fully functional. So therefore I figured i'd let the list know of this issue and why you shouldn't do it if you are a voiceover user. I wanted to also add, that while it's said that Lion does not support bootcamping with Vista, it does actually work. I made my partition and rebooted and installed Windows as normal. When the bootcamp utility starts it will tell you that you need to download Windows support drivers for your devices. What it doesn't mention is that these drivers are only for Windows 7, so if you are wanting to install Vista, you can bypass this step. Note: after Vista is installed, you will need to have your Snow Leopard disk handy because you will need to install the appropriate drivers from the SL DVD. So in short, Vista works just fine, even from a clean bootcamp install with Lion, although it's not officially supported... HTH, Cody -- 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.
