I have the windows XP install disk and I have VMWare Fusion installed on my Mac Air. I also have a PC connected to a wireless router and my Mac Air is picking up that wireless signal. Can I still install Windows XP on my Mac Air? If so, how can this be done?
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Can I run Windows XP on a Mac Air even though the Mac Air has no CD ROM drive?
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Is that really all the choice I have? I can't copy the files on the PC and copy them wirelessly to the Mac Air?
I'd have thought the easiest (or at least cheapest) way to do what you want would be:
create an iso image of the XP install CD on the PC (download and use the freeware IsoRecorder if you're stuck for anything else capable of it)
transfer the iso image accross the network from the PC to your mac book air
tell VMWare to boot from the iso image as a virtual CD, then just install XP onto your new virtual machine from it.
create an iso image of the XP install CD on the PC (download and use the freeware IsoRecorder if you're stuck for anything else capable of it)
transfer the iso image accross the network from the PC to your mac book air
tell VMWare to boot from the iso image as a virtual CD, then just install XP onto your new virtual machine from it.
As a matter of fact, that's exactly what I did! And it's working GREAT!
And you people wanted me to spend money on an external CD-ROM drive! For shame!
And you people wanted me to spend money on an external CD-ROM drive! For shame!
Hey dude/dudette ... you get what you pay for. You ask for free advice ... then it's up to you to sort it out.
And what's wrong with that?
Which would have been my original advice, too.
Exactly. I bought a MBA Superdrive, because I thought it would be useful....
Well said.