Hi everyone. I bought my iMac a few days ago and I really am enjoying it. What I wanted to do is to boot XP so I could play steam and other things aside from the stuff I can do on my mac. When Windows was setting up it wouldn't let me finish because it said that I couldn't continue because I didn't have an older version of Windows. I am using the Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 1. Any suggestions on what to do? I'm fairly new to Macs and I've never had to put a new OS on a computer so I'm lost when it comes to things like this.
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Boot camp won't let me set up XP because I don't have Windows already installed.
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How do you do this if you don't run Windows already? I mean I run two Macs and there is not a Windows computer nearby.
I want to install Windows via Boot Camp. Can I slipstream XP SP3 from my original XP disc (2002) and a downloads copy of SP3 - using just my Mac??
As CM says - you need to get a full install version of Windows, not the upgrade disk that you are trying to use.Takamofo said:
No you will need a Windows machine (either physical or virtual) as you need to run setup.exe or update.exe to start the slipstream and you can't run these under OS X.
Except that a retail disc wouldn't accept an upgrade serial, so you'd have to use a key that you haven't paid for, and therefore it is illegal.
I think Matek's answer relates to the SP3 slipstreaming question not the Upgrade disk one.
