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February 16th, 2007, 11:13 AM
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 Boot Camp & Windows 2000 Hi, I am new to macs (only a week) so any help would be appreciated. I want to load boot camp and run Windows 2000. Firstly, can boot camp run Windows 2000? Secondly, if it can, how do I do it? Cheers, for reading this and any help you can give. Pete  |
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February 16th, 2007, 11:52 AM
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| The only version of Windows supported through Boot Camp is Windows XP sp2, either Home Edition, or Professional. Here's the support page for Boot Camp http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Older OS versions are not supported, and newer versions (Vista) is not really supported yet. If you need to use Win2K, Parallels is a good choice for that, which can be used for a variety of different OSes. www.parallels.com
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February 16th, 2007, 11:56 AM
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| Why would you want to run a 7 year old operating system? The official position on what you are proposing is "no, you cannot run Windows 2000 with bootcamp". However, the unofficial answer is that anything is possible. You can use the XP chain-loader within Bootcamp to boot a Windows 2000 installation - no problem. The problem however, is once you get there - since you won't have any compatible drivers. The drivers that you will have, will be largely untested on the Mac hardware, and would probably make your system less-than-reliable for whatever it is you're trying to do. My advice is to go to XP/Vista (preferably the latter). If you STILL want to go the 2000 route, check out: http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=1096 Last edited by Yesurbius; February 16th, 2007 at 12:03 PM. |
