[Fed-Talk] XP Booting on Intel iMac: Confirmed
[Fed-Talk] XP Booting on Intel iMac: Confirmed
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] XP Booting on Intel iMac: Confirmed
- From: "David E. Price" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:23:10 -0800
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060316-6393.html
Well, It took a little longer to hack this install than I predicted,
but it looks good.
Windows XP running as the boot OS on the new Intel based Macs, dual
boot with Mac OS X... Confirmed on iMacs, MacBookPros, and MacMinis,
all in one day...
Linux should soon follow, for triple boot systems... (Red Hat has
already posted that they are working on it...)
Life is sweet.
2 hackers from California raked in almost $14,000 for being first
with a repeatable install process. The process is a little difficult,
the instructions have to be followed EXACTLY, and requires a Windows
box to make a custom XP install CD or DVD, but it works. Ports work,
but hardware such as the iSight camera and Bluetooth cards do not (so
far - they are working on hacks...). For those (like me) not familiar
with Windows-world jargon, "Nero Burning ROM" is a shareware
application used for hacking custom CDs/DVDs with boot sectors, etc.
Apple has said they won't move to block this, not sure how Micro$loth
will respond.
David
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