Boot Camp & Windows 2000
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DeltaMac
Tech
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
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
Yesurbius
Registered
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
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
What do you think XP is? It was released in 2001. XP and 2000 are nearly identical.
Yesurbius said:
Seeing as how similar the two operating systems are, the XP drivers will most likely work fine in Windows 2000. Actually I can verify this as I run 2000 on my Mac Pro.
LOL vista. Why run a crap OS like vista which adds NOTHING over 2000/XP except higher resource consumption?
Okay sorry to bump such an old thread, but my god, the ignorance of some people amazes me.