Final analysis - the reason there were network issues with win7 & Lion on a mini was that the original installer just ignored the instructions onscreen, and never completed the installation process, so the drivers were never installed. Neither were any of the bootcamp tools for win7, or apple's software update, which once installed, offered to update the drivers. Using a fat32 flash drive with the windows support software, and another flash drive w/ Lion installer on it, all things were made workable and the rest of the cloning process went very well. Since I'd continued cloning the drives while trying to resolve the win7 issues, it was simple enough to use clonezilla to simply re-clone the win7 partitions with the updated version, which was faster than re-doing the entire drive.
While still in the throes of this, I had called apple support, and wound up talking to a tech who smugly referred me to the apple kb pages on bootcamp installations. He was actually reading from the screen when he hit the line "insert Mac OS X Lion install disk..." and said "oh, dude, that's wrong" before he caught himself. This new policy of not shipping installation media with the new macs is not making me happy, so I was glad to be able to hand the guy an example of how it wouldn't work for all situations. I also got to say "that policy is really Microsoftian" out loud. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" 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/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
