hi, you can do just like i have done with my mba and the mac pro, but it is a little complicated. On the other hand if you do as i tell you too, you ought too be un and run in a few hours. First of all you gotta make an image outta your dvddrive, we will use your mac with a dvddrive for this. Open a terminal under utilities. and here is where it gets a little complex. type "mount" it will look a little like this
sandras-MacBook-Air:MacOS sandra$ mount /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse) map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse) map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse) sandras-MacBook-Air:MacOS sandra$ okay, since i don't have a cd-rom drive on the mba it is not being shown, but if you can lay the dvd in your mac, and type mount i can tell you which drive too use. Anyways, after you have found the right drive you will type something like this dd if=dev/dvd/path/ of=/place/for/the/new.iso your drive will start up, and run for a few minutes, after that is outta the way, you have your brand new image where you placed it , lay it on an usb or something like that. If you are using vmware you should be fine from here. If that aint working out just write again :) best /Sandi On 12/4/13, Blake Sinnett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I think I remember hearing you could do this too, but the process of setting > > it up wasn't possible without eye balls so I didn't investigate it much > more. There is also a way to install from a USB flash drive on newer Macs. I > > know that an USB DVD drive works, as I have to use this method since the DVD > > drive on my Mac mini has issues. > > Blake > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Kimberly thurman" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 5:53 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Installing Windows 7 on an MBA using the DVD drive from a Macbook > Pro > >> Is this possible? I don’t have a portable external DVD drive. Seems as >> though I recall hearing it is possible somewhere. >> >> Thanks in advance for any help! >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
