Hi Adrian, I haven't tried it but I believe installing boot camp to an external drive is a painful process.
If you're doing that, I'd recommend a virtual machine and keeping it on the virtual drive if space is an issue. Gav On 26/03/2010, at 11:17 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: > > Thanks Gavin, > > I dont want to sacrifice that much space so I will look at using a small > external drive. > > Regards, > > Adrian > [email protected] > > On 26/03/2010, at 10:48 AM, Gavin Criddle wrote: > >> >> Hi Adrian, >> >> 20 gigs would be heaps if you were just going to install 7, your software >> and have room for updates and a bit of processing. >> >> You'd probably end up taking around 10 gigs for Windows 7. >> >> Personally, I'd put more if you can afford it - resizing the bootcamp >> partition sucks, and you do need a lot of spare space to do it, usually >> double the size you want the partition to be - eg if you want a 50 gig >> partition, you'll may need 100 gigs of free space on your hard disk to do >> this. It can be a bit of a messy process if you need to change. >> >> Otherwise, using a virtual machine might be a better option as you can >> always resize that as you need with less hassle. >> >> Gav >> >> On 26/03/2010, at 10:42 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: >> >>> >>> Good morning all, >>> >>> Can some one please advise me how much disk space will be take if I install >>> Windows 7 on an iMac (Intel & Snow Leopard) using Boot Camp or other >>> appropriate software. >>> >>> I do not intend installing a lot of windows application as I only require >>> it to run Family Search software and maybe use it to verify that my windows >>> victim friends will be able to play the odd CD/DVD that I send them. >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Adrian >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
