Dear listers, Installing windows without sighted help on a mac is easy as 1 2 3 if you use fusion, but what a job it is, without sighted help for bootcamp. If you have experience with this, then I hope you can help.
There are a number of podcasts and guides on installing windows into a bootcamp partition on a mac. Unfortunately, none of them seem to give the entire, complete picture. In my specific case, I'm running into an error message, which of course falls outside the scope of podcasts. There is a helpful, very short written guide on the net, done by a blind user, who explains in detail how to do it. He of she wrote, that after booting the mac from the windows installation dvd, you first have a screen where you select the language, the advice is to press enter and that works, while the next screen has a button called: install now. That is true, but I'm getting the error: a required cd/dvd drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, cd, dvd, or usb flash drive, please insert it now. This message comes up after hitting install now, and I found no way to continue. Google gave an article where you should be able to hit a button called disk options, format your destination partition first, and then go on with the installation. Sounds very logical and acceptable, But that turned out to be true for windows 8, not 7. According to my wife, I don't have the disk options button, just install now, or repair. So after hitting install now, on the second screen, I'm getting this. Any idea how to work around this? The bootcamp driver software is supposed to be installed after windows is up and well, not before hand. There are more questions, but if you can help me with this one, that would be awesome, as I can then at least continue normal windows installation, given sighted help. Kind regards, Paul. -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
