Well Scott and all the others who have so kindly been assisting me, I
have Jaws 9 installed and powered my bootcamp partition successfully.
I have made progress! Hoorrah! Now the problem is my keyboard. I've
found key mapping in Fusion preferences but I don't know how to
interpret the keyboard and mouse option and the table of shortcut
keys. I'm feeling rather dumb! I know this is where so many of you
have been reassigning the jaws insert key. In fact, when I'm in
windows, I can't even go to the desktop. Is this what Will means by
grabbing keyboard with command+g? I think I should go to the archives
and seek some answers because we have had these discussions. I'm
nearly there, Listers. Butt first bed! I'm exhausted. Hardly slept
last night trying to make fusion and windows work. I have to sleep
tonight. I shall report later. If you are not bored silly with me and
have any further tips, I shall appreciate.
By the way, Scott, I couldn't find that setup option while trying to
install vmware tools. I see lots of other buttons but nothing to do
with setting up the vmware tools. I'm sure there's a simple
explanation somewhere.
With best wisehs
Simon
On 21 Jan 2009, at 20:53, Scott Ford wrote:
Simon,
I would strongly suggest that you download a newer version of Jaws
and install it on your bootcamp partition. I used version 9 with no
problem. After you get this working under bootcamp, then restart
under fusion. This will allow you to experiment with windows and
your version 7 of jaws. I have installed jaws 10 this afternoon and
it is working fine. When you install the vmware tools a windo is
soposto pop up like a drive is discovered. Windows asks you what
you would like to do. You have the option to look at the files in
windows explorer or run the setup. You choose the setup and the
tools install just like any other windows application. Good luck
Have a great day.
Scott
On Jan 21, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Well, Listers, if I ever thought running fusion was going to be
plain sailing, I should eat my words.
So, I now have Fusion installed and I try to run my Windows
choosing bootcamp partition. I go to vmware menu and choose "power
on". Windows starts booting and I hear my Jaws 7.1 introducing
itself. Then nothing. I command tab and all I hear is either fusion
or finder. I don't know where my windows is In vmware menu it seems
that it should be running because "shut" option is available and
indeed when I choose it, I can hear a lot of familiar noise in the
machine so windows is shutting down. Why can't I get to it? Or is
that Jaws crashes or doesn't speak? Is this because I run version
7.1?
Secondly, when I try to run bootcamp partition in Fusion, I get a
message to install vmware tools but only after windows has booted.
I choose install vmware tools. But I wait and wait and nothing
happens apart from the fact that there is now a "cancel" button in
vmware menu where "install vmware tools" was. But nothing happens.
Do I need to wait longer than two mintues? Would the tools have
been a part of my Fusion .dmg? Or is fusion trying to get the tools
from the internet?
I feel I'm nearly there, but not quite. Any observations would be
very helpful.
With best wishes
Simon
