This sounds awesome! So what can I do with Remote Disc? I only have one
Mac a Macbook Pro but I do have a Pc here. Any ideas greatly
appreciated. Thanks!
On 05/12/2013 15:11, Alex Hall wrote:
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 <sandi1...@gmail.com> 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 <frequency...@hotmail.com> 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
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From: "Kimberly thurman" <kkthur...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 5:53 PM
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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!
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