Re: [Fed-Talk] ADC Question with Bootcamp
Re: [Fed-Talk] ADC Question with Bootcamp
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] ADC Question with Bootcamp
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:32:48 -0600
There are no other Boot Camp betas (e.g., via ADC or AppleSeed, or
any private seeds I'm aware of) other than what you have seen
publicly released. Also, Vista isn't officially supported by Boot
Camp yet (I'm sure it eventually will be, and obviously it works now
- I'm doing the same thing as you). Since the only actual components
of "Boot Camp" that could be seeded would be the assistant and the
Windows driver package, and Apple has been keeping these fairly up to
date via the public beta channel, I'm going to guess that there
probably isn't an "official" Vista-compatible Windows driver
installer yet, even internally. Now, that last statement is just a
guess, but I think that Apple is probably focused on getting Boot
Camp itself solid and supporting XP, and then supporting Vista will
be an easy addition/update to the Windows driver installer. The CSM
for EFI (the BIOS backward compatibility layer) is done, and while
it's under the umbrella of "Boot Camp", isn't actually installed or
managed via Boot Camp. So really the only thing needed for Vista
support is 1.) Apple officially stating that is is "supported" in
Boot Camp, and 2.) a Vista-compatible Windows driver installer.
- Dave
On Dec 28, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Michael Pike wrote:
I am wondering if I am missing something here... I have an ADC
membership (the paid one)... I notice new BootCamp betas coming out
publicly but nothing on ADC.
We have Windows Vista Ultimate running via Bootcamp (we have MSDN
as well), and I had to "creatively configure" some things to
extract the apple drivers for work on Vista.... is there a place in
ADC where we can get Bootcamp beta's before the general public?
That's one frustration I have with ADC... while MSDN gives us
access to everything, ADC seems to give us the bare minimum...
there has to be someone testing bootcamp before the "public"
does... we are interested in Vista builds, and it would be nice to
beta test bootcamp in a more stable fashioned than the public
beta. For all intents and purposes, XP is dead... yeah it will be
around awhile as people tend to not upgrade right away, but I am
one of those people that want the latest and greatest, so we've
done away with XP.
So, if it is in ADC, where.. if not, is there a list we can get on? :)
mike
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