Hi guys,
After 15 years of using windows (and a few using linux) I've finally had enough of the windows drama and decided to buy a MacBook (the base model). I'm very pleased with it thus far, a little laggy at times, but I plan to upgrade the ram to 4gb since it's just so cheap now.
Unfortunately, there's still one windows program that I need to be able to run for my business.
I used bootcamp to partition and I then installed xp pro sp1. I was able to access it without much trouble, even though I later read that I should have used sp2. I was able to get most things working, but after trying for hours I couldn't get the network card to function. I tried to update it to sp2, but it gives an error about lack of free space, and how another 4 megs is required (even though there's many gigs free). I searched the error and it appears to be related to bootcamp, and I figured it's another sp1 related. Since my sp2 cd is all scratched up, I tried three things:
1) I slipstreamed SP2 into my SP1 install files and created a new cd, however bootcamp doesn't recognize the cd and doesn't initialize the install. I'm afraid if I do it manually windows will overwrite the master boot record.
2) I downloaded a new copy of SP2 but bootcamp still doesn't recognize it.
3) I installed the demo of parallels, pretty cool how it works, but it keeps freezing on me, and I have to do a hard reboot.
Any advice as far as how to proceed to run my little windows program?
Thanks,
Dan
After 15 years of using windows (and a few using linux) I've finally had enough of the windows drama and decided to buy a MacBook (the base model). I'm very pleased with it thus far, a little laggy at times, but I plan to upgrade the ram to 4gb since it's just so cheap now.
Unfortunately, there's still one windows program that I need to be able to run for my business.
I used bootcamp to partition and I then installed xp pro sp1. I was able to access it without much trouble, even though I later read that I should have used sp2. I was able to get most things working, but after trying for hours I couldn't get the network card to function. I tried to update it to sp2, but it gives an error about lack of free space, and how another 4 megs is required (even though there's many gigs free). I searched the error and it appears to be related to bootcamp, and I figured it's another sp1 related. Since my sp2 cd is all scratched up, I tried three things:
1) I slipstreamed SP2 into my SP1 install files and created a new cd, however bootcamp doesn't recognize the cd and doesn't initialize the install. I'm afraid if I do it manually windows will overwrite the master boot record.
2) I downloaded a new copy of SP2 but bootcamp still doesn't recognize it.
3) I installed the demo of parallels, pretty cool how it works, but it keeps freezing on me, and I have to do a hard reboot.
Any advice as far as how to proceed to run my little windows program?
Thanks,
Dan
