Installing Vista 64 bit w/Boot Camp

Hello,

I have a new iMac, with Mac OSX version 10.5.6, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB DDR RAM. I am trying to install Vista 64bit, I am using Boot Camp 2.1, that is suppose to contain the drivers for 64bit Vista. I was told when I ordered the Vista 64 bit that it would work on my iMac.

I have downloaded BC 2.1 but it shows as an .exe file. Is there something that I need to do to get BC to install? I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Peter

You're supposed to update Boot Camp from within Windows as the drivers would be useless on the OS X side (the Boot Camp Assistant does nothing more than partition the drive and install a bootloader, it has nothing to do with drivers).

Install Windows first, then install the 2.1 drivers.

Thanks

Thanks so much for such a quick and helpful reply.

Regards,

Peter

boot camp assistant partitions the drive in OS X, then you install the drivers from your recovery CD while in windows. i have no idea what BCUpdateVista64.exe does. base on my progress today and other forums, it does absolutely nothing.
my previous iMac (mid-2007) installed and ran Vista64 just fine, only i had to use a vLite custom install disc to get around the EFI problem. drivers installed from the leopard retail CD with no problem. never heard of or had a reason to look for BCUpdateVista64.exe.
today i got a new iMac (2009) and i'm trying to install it again. i used the same vLite disc, but not because of the EFI problem. this time installation froze at 75% using the OEM vista disc. after installing, i tried to use my iMac recovery discs to install drivers and I got a message along the lines of "Boot Camp X64 is unsupported on this computer model."
now why would it work on the mid-2007 but not early-2009 iMac?
i've been trying workarounds all day. no luck.