Sunday, July 29, 2012

install windows on osx bootcamp partition using boot camp

I have found a wonderful, in depth guide to installing windows on the boot camp partition on your osx machine.  It uses a trick in parallels and it appears to be more successful then doing it with vmware.


The writer of the tutorial says that you have to modify the master boot record (MBR) which can be tricky if you aren't familiar with using the terminal.  (There is also that feeling of messing with something that you don't really understand....)


Here is the link to the forum I found the link in:

According to the original poster, you can install it without fiddling around with the mater boot record.  All you need is to install rEFIt and I guess it will magically find the windows partition.

It is unknown whether he quit parallels as per the tutorial or let it completely install, before restarting his computer to boot windows.




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