Downloading Windows drivers in Boot Camp hangs

[zen]

I'm installing Windows 7 on an early 2008 iMac. Using Boot Camp assistant, it's now downloading windows drivers, but the progress bar hasn't moved from about 20% for the last hour or so.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of downloading the drivers - have I done something incorrect, or does the download just take hours and hours?

 

[igucl]

If I recall correctly, the drivers you need are already included in the Boot Camp package on the Mac OS X install disc. You shouldn't need to download anything initially.

The downloads would come later to update Windows after you have it set up.

 

[zen]

If I recall correctly, the drivers you need are already included in the Boot Camp package on the Mac OS X install disc. You shouldn't need to download anything initially.

The downloads would come later to update Windows after you have it set up.

There is no install disc for Lion.

 

[igucl]

There is no install disc for Lion.

Oh yeah. Oops.

I used the Snow Leopard disc. I guess I'm not current with the new methods.

 

[zen]

I have a Snow Leopard disc somewhere - so, if I put that in when Windows/Boot Camp asks for the drivers, it might work? And even then, I can just update from within Windows anyway?

 

[igucl]

I have a Snow Leopard disc somewhere - so, if I put that in when Windows/Boot Camp asks for the drivers, it might work? And even then, I can just update from within Windows anyway?

I believe that will work as long as your computer wasn't shipped after Snow Leopard.

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My MacBook is currently running Lion on the Mac partition, but it's running Windows 7 using the drivers from the Snow Leopard disc on the Windows partition.

So, I don't see why it wouldn't work.