Posted by Luis Ortega on 04/20/07 20:09

Smarty, I just checked the site and it seems doable.
My question is, the part that "took a lot of screwing around"- was that in
creating the disk itself or getting it to work on the Mac when trying to
install Windows on the Mac?
The creating the disk part doesn't concern me as I am quite familiar with
getting things PC to work, but I am a total novice on the Mac side, so that
currently scares me.
Thanks for your advice.

"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
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> Luis,
>
> One method is to build a so-called "slipstreamed " Windows XP SP2
> bootable disk per the instructions at:
>
> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp
>
> I did this successfully with Bootcamp to install XP on my MacPro but it
> took a lot of screwing around.
>
> Smarty
>
>
>
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> "Luis Ortega" <lortega@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:1b8Wh.4744$VT3.3145@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
>>I have my Windows XP Pro installation disk which includes service pack 1,
>>but I read that to install Windows XP on a Mac Pro you need to have a
>>Windows disk that includes service pack 2.
>> I read somewhere else that you can create a Windows installation disk
>> that includes service pack 2 so that you can install Windows and not have
>> to waste the time updating to service pack 2, but I don't remember how.
>> Is this correct, and if so, would this newly created disk be accepted
>> during a Windows installation on a Mac, or would the way it was put
>> together cause problems?
>> I would appreciate any advice on whether this is possible and how to do
>> it and if it would be useable for a Windows XP installation on a Mac.
>> Thanks a lot for any advice.
>>
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