That's complicated… Why not just use Remote Disk? Enable the feature under Sharing in your System Preferences. Put the disk into the drive, give it a minute, and then find "remote disk" on the sidebar of your MBA's Finder. Both machines need to be on the same wifi network, but it should work. I installed Windows on Fusion this way, using an old Mac Mini as the drive and loading it onto my Air. You can even download a utility to do this on a Windows machine if you need to. On Dec 4, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- 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.
