For I have tasted the fruit (Problem: Vista & Boot Camp)

[creiss]

Heya's!

I just tasted the forbidden fruit this friday, my very first mac after 15 years of PC and Unix/Linux. Damn that 24" is nice

Anyway.

I am a pro PC user and know Linux/ Unix from the ground up; but i am a total Mac n00b, if I might say so.

So I installed/ used Boot Camp and also installed Vista 64 in the partition, which sort of runs nice. But here is the problem: It refuses to eat the Panther DVD so I cant install any drivers. The only thing I did then was to feed Vista Network drivers by hand.

After updating Vista to the latest stuff I try to install the Boot Camp update, which is available from mac (which also supports x64) but when I launch the executable it asks for permissions but then dies, ie, nothing is happening.

Any ideas?

Thank you all!

-Christian.

[CEMatt]

The Book Camp version (Beta 1.2) before the Leopard version (1.4) required you to burn a drivers CD using Book Camp Assistant. Then after installing Windows OS and booting from Windows, the CD you made is used to install the drivers. This also required only 32-bit versions of Windows.

I'm confused. Are you running Panther or Leopard? Anyway, if you're running Leopard, the necessary drivers are installed from the Leopard DVD after you boot in Windows. The joker here may be the 64-bit version of Vista...it may require the 32-bit version.

Hope this helps you sort it out.

Matt

[creiss]

But the newest Boot Camp .exe file states that it now supports Vista 64? And I am running 10.5.2.

Cheers!
-Chris.

[CEMatt]

You're correct.
However there are two Boot Camp 2.1 for Vista versions.
One for the 64-bit Vista and another for the 32-bit Vista.
Sure you have the right one?

[creiss]

Yes I am sure.

However even before I succeeded in installing the drivers I just could not stand Vista anymore and upgraded to XP. (See my other problem thread :P)

-Chris.