You can install 7 no problem without a firewire port. you just open bootcamp
assistant, split your hard drive in half, because 20gb will not be enough
for windows. When the system reboots, it will automatically boot into the
windows setup so wait until you stop hearing the drive spin and the first
screen will probably be the language chooser or the installer. In any case,
press enter, then alt + I. the next screen is the license agreement, press
alt + A and then alt + N for next. this next screen will be for the
partition chooser, and for me I had to have someone click advanced, then
format, on the bootcamp partition, which I think is where the fire wire
thing came into play. for me the bootcamp partition was the last in the
list, and I don't remember the command to hit advanced I think it is alt+D
but don't hold me to that. then the format button I'm not sure of. After
that you can press alt + N to go to next and the install should continue.
This will take a while, and if you've got no vision, I'm not sure how you'll
know you're at the setup screen, but at that point you may be able to use
narrator, but in my case I couldn't because I didn't have any sound drivers
installed. Maybe if you left a USB headset plugged in windows would detect
it and install the drivers and then you could use narrator that way.
HTH
Cody
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: Installed Windows7 Alone.
Oh my god, you gotta tell me keystroke by keystorke how to do this as I
don't have anyone sighted near me who is savvy enough to help with this, and
everyone I've asked to read the screen seems to think I'm gonna break my
system and thus won't help me.
If you can tell me step by step what to do, I do have a retail copy of 7
Ultimate, and would absolutely love! to get this working, but every time I
try, I wind up crashing things.
So, yeah, if you can tell me how to do this, it would be awesome!
BTW, I do not have a firewire port on my macbook as it's a white 13 inch mid
2010 model.
I'm running OSX 10.7, Lion.
Thanks.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Georges Zaynoun" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 11:35 PM
Subject: Installed Windows7 Alone.
Hi!
Using BootCamp and without sighted help and totally alone I did it and
not using the unattended way.
I made the partition using BootCamp then using a firewire cable I
accessed the empty BootCamp partition in target mode and from a Windows
XP machine I used the quick format to format the BootCamp partition.
Finally held c down while powering the normal way and pressed enter a
couple of times and then continued my way with space then enter to
accept the license, c for custom and confirmed it with enter. The
instructions I have for installing a retail version didn't work exactly
on the oem version dvd I used since I had to repeat the installation
several times before it worked, I didn't have anybody to read me the
screens but I relied on my previos knowledge, anyhow it worked. On
second restart it is totally unattended by itself and I already had usb
headset, third restart came the speech with command-u. I used BootCamp
to download the drivers and burn them to a cd and it was a MacBook
13inch white from February 2009.
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