Here's Broadcasting from Vista

Just thought I'd let you guys know that (eventually!!!!!!) I'm writing this post from Vista! After 9 weeks of errors, I've cracked it.

For those who are experiencing the same errors that I've been having (and I know there's a few!) i'll post a full step by step to my installation later tonight.

But hey! Vista is good.

Cool, i'm waiting your easy installation guide

quicksilver said:

Just thought I'd let you guys know that (eventually!!!!!!) I'm writing this post from Vista! After 9 weeks of errors, I've cracked it.

For those who are experiencing the same errors that I've been having (and I know there's a few!) i'll post a full step by step to my installation later tonight.

But hey! Vista is good.

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did you get it installed yet?

Ok, fool proof! (ish)

Install XP SP2 thru Bootcamp. Sort out all your drivers and stuff in XP first, it'll save you problems later.

Now, I can't remember exactly how I did this so..

If I recall, I rebooted, with the Vista DVD in the drive and booted from the DVD.
Go thru the motions, and follow the instructions. At the point where it brings the drive information up, delete the EFI partition. (a 200MB partition which will become 199MB when deleted.)

Now, if you've had the problems I've had, the installation will start but stop during the 'copying files' stage. This is ok. Ideally you want to get out of it after deleting the EFI anyway. (I think you can cancel it actually)

Reboot into XP. Download an app called UltraISO from download.com.

Unpack the Vista ISO into a folder onto the hard drive somewhere.

Once its done, navigate to it, and click on the setup icon.

Choose to Upgrade, and Vista will tell you what programs will not be compatible with it. (Theoretically, if you've just installed XP, you shouldn't have any. If you get any programs that aren't compatible, you have to exit the install and uninstall the conflicting programs)

After this, you should be able to sit back and wait about an hour. The Mac will reboot a number of times, but should finish the installation, and you will have Vista!



Seems long-winded now I've typed it, but it worked and I'm now dual-booting OS X and Vista!

Hope this helps.

[EDIT] You will still have some driver issues (iSight for instance) but the majority of things should work straight away. On my first boot I connected to my wireless network and posted the above topic.[/EDIT]

quicksilver can you post some pictures if you wouldn't mind so we could all see how it looks.

Nice one quicksilver. But have you found a way past the 14day time bomb yet? Vista is pretty useless without a fix.

Thanks

I must admit I have no idea about a 14 day time bomb>>???

I will post some pics, when i get a second to myself! Busy day!!!

Ok here's a few pics.

You've got intial boot screen

start up screen

login

desktop with 'gadgets bar'

window

glass effects

flip3d

new start menu


Sorry about the poor camera phone pics, but at least you get the idea!

wow looks cool my friend has it on his imac but i have not sene it in person looks way cool

well if you run into any problems within the next month or so, let me know. I want the an os x feel to windows, plus i'm a gamer so gaming must look sick... but if there are any vista problems within the next month post them here...

those look good, good job that you got Vista on your mac.

Yeah Ive heard of people doing it. Now if you want something cool, get it to work under Parallels.

where do you order a vista dvd from? a special beta department of microsoft? or do you have to be aksed to be a beta tester. I don't understand how people are getting coppies of vista.

PowerBookG4 said:

where do you order a vista dvd from? a special beta department of microsoft? or do you have to be aksed to be a beta tester. I don't understand how people are getting coppies of vista.

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Microsoft released the Public Beta 2 of Windows Vista a month or so ago.

Goto the microsoft website, go to Windows, and click the Vista link. It should take you straight to the Vista Beta page. You can order the DVD or download the iso. I downloaded it, and it only took 2 1/2 hrs!

Good luck!

A week in, no problems i've noticed yet. Disabled the **** security settings though! Grrrr.

Substantially greater battery usage, but XP was the same so to be expected.

P.S. I just love how Microsoft say "We've combined suspend and hibernate to create a NEW state called 'sleep'"!!!

2 1/2 hours?! Took me half an hour. That's strange, and I downloaded about a day or two after it's release...

Wow, Windows is such a pain, and very confusing. All that installing and downloading 3rd party software? You would never have to do anything like this on a Mac.

BlindingLights said:

2 1/2 hours?! Took me half an hour. That's strange, and I downloaded about a day or two after it's release...

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If you got it the first 2 days it was released and got it in half an hour, you are one lucky person and got a very good connect with their servers. It was up and down here for 3 hours till it came down. It aborted a couple of times before It finally came down.

Yeah loads of people were having major trouble getting it.
I was quite impressed with getting it in under 3 hrs let alone half an hour! I got it on the first day aswell!

dtravis7 said:

If you got it the first 2 days it was released and got it in half an hour, you are one lucky person and got a very good connect with their servers. It was up and down here for 3 hours till it came down. It aborted a couple of times before It finally came down.

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yeah, i guess I lucked out. I was like, "what's all the fuss about downloads taking so long? This is one of the fastest OS downlaods I've ever used!"

I guess I did get an awesome connection with their servers.