And I now have a Windows 7 64bit disc that will actually install on my older 2006/2007 macs I also found a fix for the dreaded "Bootcamp64 doesn't support this model" issue when trying to install the Bootcamp Drivers on Windows 7
Ok, The oscdimg method doesn't work for me as I get errors on the MS-DOS command prompt but I found another different method here that works... http://jowie.com/blog/post/2008/02/...t-from-Vista-x64-DVD-burnt-from-iso-file.aspx
This method really works
Art
I have the same error and understand the problem, but my problem is more basic. I want to eject my Windows 7 64bit cdrom out of the iMac, but have not been able to do it.
Is there a way?
What has not worked so far:
- Pressing D on start-up - (meant to bypass the cdrom and load hard disk).
- Pressed either mouse button on boot up.
- No keyboard key presses seem to work.
- Held the power button in for 10 seconds in the hope I see some sort of menu or boot up screen (Nothing)
- Tweezers are too large to fit in the front of the CD drive.
I am shortly going to try and open my iMac up to extract the CD myself, but was wondering if there are any other solutions.
With all that information in hand, I went about recreating the .iso file to burn back to disk to see if simply setting checking the option in imgburn to not use the versioning scheme worked.
First thing you will want to do is extract the boot image off of the DVD created from the .iso downloaded from the beta site, you can access this while in "Build" mode.
While that DVD you burned is still in the drive, and after you've extracted the boot image somewhere to your hard drive, click the button right above to delete button to browse for a folder to add the files from the DVD to the image. Just add the root of the drive, you should then have something that looks like this.
On the Options tab, ensure the file system is selected as ISO9660 + UDF, and the UDF version is set to 1.02. These settings matched what the MS .iso file were set at, and is the only reason I chose them. Other settings may work, experiment if you like, rewritable DVDs are your friends.
Now we get to the part where we configure the ISO9660 settings, on the Advanced tab, Restrictions subtab, then ISO9660 subtab, I set the Folder/File Name Length to Level X, and checked all the options toward the bottom of that pane.
We're almost done, onward to the Bootable Disk tab. Check the option to make the image bootable, select None for emulation type, browse to the boot .ima file you extracted earlier, and set the sectors to load to 4(8 if you're building a Win7 DVD!).
That should do it! Create the new .iso file and then burn it to disk.
Jowie Post worked great for me! Thanks! I have a 2007 Mac Pro 1,1 2.66Ghz 32EFI and it worked great. I got the $30 student Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. So, if any Mac Pros are out there like mine, this works! http://jowie.com/blog/post/2008/02/...t-from-Vista-x64-DVD-burnt-from-iso-file.aspxThanks again to everyone!Ok, The oscdimg method doesn't work for me as I get errors on the MS-DOS command prompt but I found another different method here that works... http://jowie.com/blog/post/2008/02/...t-from-Vista-x64-DVD-burnt-from-iso-file.aspx
This method really works
Art
, which luckily was fairly painless aside from a lot of waiting. As with the RC, manually executing BootCamp64.msi with admin privileges from the Snow Leopard DVD worked great.Imgburn will install in Crossover but can't access the DVD drive. Using VMWare Fusion however was very easy and worked automagically.
The bootcamp update happens after you get Windows installed so this will not have any effect.
