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Must…. buy… Windows…

Well, it’s official. Apple’s Boot Camp documentation is correct: Windows XP SP1 won’t install on my MacBook Pro, so in the morning it’s off to purchase a copy of XP SP2. I’ll install it tomorrow and talk about it on Monday night’s MacGeekGab Podcast.

So far it works very well — Apple’s partitioner is slick and just does it’s job with little fanfare (if only the lay user appreciated how *much* voodoo has to go on to do what is being done). Now.. can I get my 5GB back if and when I decide that, no dear, I don’t need to run Windows on my shiny new MacBook Pro? 😉

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4 Responses to “Must…. buy… Windows…”

  1. david Says:
    April 10th, 2006 at 5:36 am

    This is evil..EVIL I tells ya!!

    No good can come of this!!!!!

  2. david Says:
    April 10th, 2006 at 10:36 am

    This is evil..EVIL I tells ya!!
    No good can come of this!!!!!

  3. Michael Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 11:45 pm

    Dave, I’m not sure if you know this, but you can do something called “slipstreaming” to your XP disc using a service pack updater. I used my original XP cd to slipstream to SP1 and then to SP2. It’s much more stable than installing it after the fact and would help in this situation.

    Heres a link to the process:
    http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

  4. Michael Says:
    April 27th, 2006 at 4:45 am

    Dave, I’m not sure if you know this, but you can do something called “slipstreaming” to your XP disc using a service pack updater. I used my original XP cd to slipstream to SP1 and then to SP2. It’s much more stable than installing it after the fact and would help in this situation.
    Heres a link to the process:
    http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

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