Installing vista on my mac?

[gamerz]

Hello everyone,

I recently purchased windows vista today so that I could instal it on my mac, and play all the games that my friends play.

How do I go about doing this?

Thanks.

[econoline06]

I believe no one has replied because this is a well known "how to" in the Mac community and is easily solved by a quick google search or using your Mac's built in help. However, to answer your question, simply use the Bootcamp setup assistant in your Utilities folder.

[iTim314]

Here's my recommended Setup:

Partition your hard drive into 3 partitions while booted into Leopard.


1) You Mac OS X partition, formatted to NFS (already done)

2) A 'Windows' partition, formatted into MS-FAT32. Now, Windows Vista requires NTFS+. When installing Vista, select this partition and format it to NTFS+. It is important that you FIRST format to MS-FAT32 in Mac OS X, or else the install won't be able to re-format. Since Vista requires NTFS+, and Mac OS X can only READ NTFS+, this presents a small issue if you ever want to file share between the two OSs, hence.............

3) Create a third partition as a swap drive, formatted to MS-FAT32.


Now install onto Partition 2 and your good to go. On each System, you'll see a SWAP drive and a system drive. :)

[richard.mac]

^ the swap partition seems highly unnessessary. you cant create 3 partitions with Boot Camp Assistant and Disk Utility in Leopard can only create HFS+ partitons non destructively.

so gamerz as econoline06 suggested create a partition with Boot Camp Assistant, insert the Vista DVD and restart, format the partition (C:) and install Vista. then use the Leopard DVD to install the drivers.

[iTim314]

^ the swap partition seems highly unnessessary. you cant create 3 partitions with Boot Camp Assistant and Disk Utility in Leopard can only create HFS+ partitons non destructively.

Yeah, all depends on your usage. I had no trouble, however, with creating the extra partitions.

And the swap drive is quite useful to me, since I regularly create images in Vista with an 'old' copy of Photoshop I already had and copy them to Mac OS X.

[richard.mac]

did you have to erase your hard disk to create 3 partitions? im guessing the OP doesnt want to have to go thru this.

[gamerz]

Is bootcamp a free program? Or do I need to purchase it?

Also, I found a program could "Q", anybody have experiences using it?

[mathcolo]

Is bootcamp a free program? Or do I need to purchase it?

Also, I found a program could "Q", anybody have experiences using it?

Yes, BootCamp is free and is already included on your Intel mac. Just look into Applications -> Utilities as others have mentioned.

Q? Huh?

EDIT: Looked up Q... OP: Boot Camp lets you BOOT into Windows whereas Q only emulates it in a Mac OS X window. Boot Camp will give you native speed. Q on the other hand, won't.

[iwuzbord]

might i also suggest a virtual machine?
Virtual machines let you run windows and mac os x at the same time.
if you're looking for something like that, vmware fusion, paralells desktop, and sun's virtual box are great programs for it.
if youre interested, do a forum search and you can find more information on them.

[gamerz]

I have Virtualbox now, thanks.

Will it still run as fast as bootcamp would though?

[Consultant]

I have Virtualbox now, thanks.

Will it still run as fast as bootcamp would though?

Virtual machines will not run as fast as booting using 1 OS.