Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini No, I understand completely. I just don't know if the Mac train will last much longer with Apple's current focus, either. Crap like the perpetual and unfixed VoiceOver bugs and stupidly inept stuff like this and this seriously give me pause; eve

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I don't think Firefox is supported in XP anymore. Well, that's fine. I don't need to look at webpages or e-mail. I have my Macbook Air for that. I can play online games with my Mac. I've been transfering stuff through USB drives so should be

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Even in 2006, you have gigabit Ethernet. You have 54 Mb/s Wi-Fi. Clearly how you use the machine decides whether or not you'll consider Ethernet, but I'd say it was non-negotiable. I think you should be all right. Get all the updates installed, and IE

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Even in 2006, you have gigabit Ethernet. You have 54 Mb/s Wi-Fi. Clearly how you use the machine decides whether or not you'll consider Ethernet, but I'd say it was non-negotiable. I think you should be all right. Get all the updates installed, and IE

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Well, wi-fi works well enough. I don't like ethernet because that's just one more cable to deal with. This thing already has too many cables coming from it if you count the USB Windows keyboard, the power adapter that connects to the back, and a

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini That's the one.Yes, just keep running Apple Software Update and Windows/Microsoft Update until there is nothing further to fetch.Isn't being stuck in the rosy past fun? I'd never take Wi-Fi over Ethernet if I could possibly help it, but if it wo

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Are you talking about this?Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady] "Installed"=dword:0001You can receive updates until April 2019? Holy cow! That's awesome! As for the drivers, I downloaded bootcamp 3.1

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Can you get that thing over to an Ethernet port? Even if you do manage to get the drivers updated, I doubt the fact that this machine supports only 802.11G is going to give you anything like enough speed on a contemporary broadband connection.But yes, update

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Can you get that thing over to an Ethernet port? Even if you do manage to get the drivers updated, I doubt the fact that this machine supports only 802.11G is going to give you anything like enough speed on a contemporary broadband connection.But yes, update

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hello,Now that I said that, I'm having issues with wi-fi. It's not connecting to the internet. What's going on here? I tried running setup.exe in the bootcamp folder, but it doesn't seem to correct the issue. Should I remove the installation

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hello,Now that I said that, I'm having issues with wi-fi. It's not connecting to the internet. What's going on here? I tried running setup.exe in the bootcamp folder, but it doesn't seem to correct the issue. Should I remove the installation

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hello,Now that I said that, I'm having issues with wi-fi. It's not connecting to the internet. What's going on here? I tried running setup.exe in the bootcamp folder, but it doesn't seem to correct the issue. Should I remove the installation

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Awesome! You will find that the maximum of 3GB or thereabouts of RAM is sufficient to sustain XP but that you can't access more of it. That's something you can fix, although not without an additional piece of software, and IMO it's not really wo

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I got it!Here are my observations from about 5 or 10 minutes of playing with it. First, this thing is fast! It's like night and day between now and the time I tried running XP in a virtual machine under SnowLeopard. That experience was not pleasant to sa

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I got it!Here are my observations from about 5 or 10 minutes of playing with it. First, this thing is fast! It's like night and day between now and the time I tried running XP in a virtual machine under SnowLeopard. That experience was not pleasant to sa

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Well, bravo, sort of. Are you sure you have SP3 there? It sounds like your first problem is going to be disconnecting from that TV without experiencing display and audio problems. Or maybe you won't, if you can get the drivers (and any updates) install

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Well, I think I got the operating system installed, but I'm stuck once again.So, I had to use an HDMI cable from my sister's Xbox to her TV. I got it installed and talking from my H1, but my sister came home and had a cow because I was using her

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Well, I think I got the operating system installed, but I'm stuck once again.So, I had to use an HDMI cable from my sister's Xbox to her TV. I got it installed and talking from my H1, but my sister came home and had a cow because I was using her

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini To burn a disc, just press the Burn button; no need to open the image up first. And there's no concept of a format either; a disc is either written or empty (let's not discuss sessions, for now).Plug in your audio device before the first stage of Win

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini The disks have finally come! I'm going to be trying this tonight. Let me make sure I'm doing this right. I put the disk into the drive on the Mac Mini and fire up disk utility. I open the iso in disk utility and then go to the disk in the table and

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Mmm, doesn't sound too healthy, but no matter, I have clean images if it should come to that.And yeah, there's really no downside to actually having optical media. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=2498

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hello,All right then. I guess now all I have to do is wait for the DVDs to ship. I hope this image burns correctly and boots. I found it on a website that said it was the full iso from Microsoft with service pack 3 and the latest updates from some time in 2013

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Ditto, XP for me too (at least in a VM running on my Mac).Yes. Just write the XP ISO (which I hope is an official full ISO, either retail or OEM, for which you have a key) to the disc. You could probably have spared some of the cost with CD-Rs rather than DVD

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Ditto, XP for me too (at least in a VM running on my Mac).Yes. Just write the XP ISO (which I hope is an official full ISO, either retail or OEM, for which you have a key) to the disc. You could probably have spared some of the cost with CD-Rs rather than DVD

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Ahh, so the download is only for Windows 7 drivers? According to an Apple article, I can only install 32 bit versions of XP and Vista. At least I know why the download failed. I could install Vista, but I hear that Vista doesn't like 1 gb of ram so that

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini The drivers you want will certainly be on that image, as long as the DVD is newer than the Mac. Indeed, the drivers downloaded by BootCamp Assistant are intended for Windows 7 and up, at least on contemporary versions of OS X, which probably explains why you&#x

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I've been using virtual machines, but am finding that my usage of Windows is steadily decreasing. I figured I could get some use out of my Mini which is basically sitting around gathering dust. Windows XP may not be the most up to date version of Windows

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I've been using virtual machines, but am finding that my usage of Windows is steadily decreasing. I figured I could get some use out of my Mini which is basically sitting around gathering dust. Windows XP may not be the most up to date version of Windows

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Well played. I didn't know you had a Windows VM, but that is indeed what you are after.That stuff on the DVD is mostly from the bad old days when the MacBook Air used networked optical drives to boot and install OS X. It's all now irrelevant, except t

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I didn't have to go through that terminal crap. I just had to use the dmg as a cd drive in my Windows XP virtual machine on my Air. A lot of interesting things appeared. I got an application from within Windows that said dvd sharing and remote install Mac

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I didn't have to go through that terminal crap. I just had to use the dmg as a cd drive in my Windows XP virtual machine on my Air. A lot of interesting things appeared. I got an application from within Windows that said dvd sharing and remote install Mac

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Try to follow the instructions on this thread.If this doesn't work, I can just send you the drivers, as I know I have recent ones for XP.Good luck ... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249704#p2

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hello,When I try to extract the dmg with the Unarchiver, I get the followingm essage.The contents of the file "snowleopard_10a432_userdvd.dmg" can not be extracted with this program.What do I do now? I'm going to order those disks today so shoul

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Yes, you ought to be able to extract the BootCamp drivers from your Snow Leopard image, using a tool like TheUnarchiver. If you're having any trouble, just let me know and I'll MailDrop them to you.Buy those DVD-RW discs. Or go cheaper and buy DVD-R,

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I'd honestly just go buy the dvdrw's, it'll do you better in the long run. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249438#p249438 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-refle

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini All right then. I guess it's time to find some optical disks. I can't help but think this is a big giant waste of time. How do I get the Bootcamp drivers? It says to insert my OS X installation disk. I just want to have these around whenever I find di

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini All right then. I guess it's time to find some optical disks. I can't help but think this is a big giant waste of time. How do I get the Bootcamp drivers? It says to insert my OS X installation disk. I just want to have these around whenever I find di

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini i want to know the answer, too. any easy solution on this issue? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=249119#p249119 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini It's not that the idea is bad (I already covered it on this thread, in fact) but that, somehow, you need to be able to provide a bootable environment without using any optical media, and only using the tools in OS X. So for instance, you could get the MBR

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini All right, so here's what I'm dealing with currently. I can't find any disks and don't feel like digging any up either off the internet or just around here. As I see it, I have two options. Either I scrap this whole stupid attempt or I try

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini All right, so here's what I'm dealing with currently. I can't find any disks and don't feel like digging any up either off the internet or just around here. As I see it, I have two options. Either I scrap this whole stupid attempt or I try

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Put the disc in the drive, then go to System Information and look under Disc Burning. You should be able to learn about the media that way. You can also try just erasing the disc in Disk Utility.To be a teensy-weensy bit fair to Apple, machines often had

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini So, can these disks be overwritten with new data? I actually have to find these, since it looks like someone moved them on me.I agree, it probably was a scam. Still, I got the guy to send me another set for free. He had no idea why they wouldn't install. I

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Put the disc in the drive, then go to System Information and look under Disc Burning. You should be able to learn about the media that way. You can also try just erasing the disc in Disk Utility. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247795#p247795

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini So, can these disks be overwritten with new data? I actually have to find these, since it looks like someone moved them on me.I agree, it probably was a scam. Still, I got the guy to send me another set for free. He had no idea why they wouldn't install. I

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini And as an aside, the bloke who sold you them clearly scammed you, since machine-specific discs should never be sold without the Macs they came with. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247779#p247779

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini You could check by formatting these disks then burning something to them. If they eject, then they're cd roms, thus not rewriteable. If they burn, then the'yre rewriteable. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=2477

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini All right, here goes one last thought on this whole mess.I have 2 packages containing disks with OS X 10.4.7 on them. Would it be possible to delete the current contents of said disks and burn other stuff like the talking PE or XP image to these disks? The disks

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini If it shows up as a USB audio device in OS X, then the likelihood is good that it's fine for USB audio in Windows. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247542#p247542 ___ Audiogames-refl

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I just want to make sure of one thing. Does the Zoom H1 in soundcard mode work with any of these talking PE images? I'm really starting to think it doesn't. I'm just going to scrap this. If it's going to be this difficult to do a simpl

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Mmm, you still need a bootable Windows OS to get it going. That means a CD. Trust me, my 2011 iMac couldn't do MBR USB boot, either. Although I'm not exactly sure what might happen if you try to start the UEFI loader on the Mac from USB. Maybe, if yo

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Scratch scratch scratch... xp is so old and long gone, that i don't even remember how i installed it all those years ago ... rofl Theoretically any intel mac should boot at least from an mbr partition scheme, even if it has a hybrid one. There's

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I thought Sebby said that you can't boot those old intel macs with MBR partition schemes. I tried using that Windows program once but it made an NTFS drive. I just tired to run the XP iso I have in Vmware. It opens the install program, but pressing ent

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini I thought Sebby said that you can't boot those old intel macs with MBR partition schemes. I tried using that Windows program once but it made an NTFS drive. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247526#p2

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini HiI'm thinking of two options here:- Create a usb drive with rufus, picking mrb for bios or uefi computers and using winpe 7, the one from bryan smart. It's using a 32-bit environment so xp will install just fine.- Create an answer file for xp and u

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hello,Would it be possible to put the Talking PE environment on the Mac drive on an MBR fat32 partition and then boot from that? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247515#p247515 ___ Audiogames

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Dvd's aren't actually that expensive, in dded I've seen rewriteables for only a few bucks. All you need to do is find a retail iso of xp, burn it to disk, and get the product key out of the xp virtual machine. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/vi

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Dvd's aren't actually that expensive, in dded I've seen rewriteables for only a few bucks. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247501#p247501 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Well, that just stops everything. I don't really have DVDs and don't feel like buying any. At this point, I don't even know if putting XP on this is worth it anymore. So, I don't know. It's sad that Snow Leopard (which is just about as

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini @Chris: yes. Macs can boot from GPT-format USB media, but only the newest Macs (starting with MacBook Airs, I believe) know how to boot MBR, which is what you need for Windows. I wasn't wrong, I'm afraid. You'll need that ISO burned to a CD.To get

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hello,This machine can boot from USB. I've done it to install Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger off of USB drives. I got this machine off of Kraigslist from some guy who didn't bother to give me install disks. I had to find dmg files for Leopard and Sn

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hello,This machine can boot from USB. I've done it to install Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger off of USB drives. I got this machine off of Kraigslist from some guy who didn't bother to give me install disks. I had to find dmg files for Leopard and Sn

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hello,This machine can boot from USB. I've done it to install Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger off of USB drives. I got this machine off of Kraigslist from some guy who didn't bother to give me install disks. I had to find dmg files for Leopard and Sn

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hi Chris.Yes, install Windows to save your Mac. And yes, good ol' XP is probably the best option. The BootCamp drivers are on your Snow Leopard disc, which I hope you have, although I can also find you some up-to-date ones I've rescued. You won't

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Re: Bootcamping my Mac Mini hi.I'll just give my opinion on the OSX installer.for me the best version of OSX is Snow Leopard.cheers. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=247140#p247140 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing

Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hi everyone.If anyone has been following my posts, you know I have had a 2006 Mac Mini for the past 2 or so years. While I've loved using all the versions of OS X it suppports, these versions are no longer very useful. I'm thinking about putting Window

Bootcamping my Mac Mini

Bootcamping my Mac Mini Hi everyone.If anyone has been following my posts, you know I have had a 2006 Mac Mini for the past 2 or so years. While I've loved using all the versions of OS X it suppports, these versions are no longer very useful. I'm thinking about putting Window