Bartboy919 Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 The Apple installer for XP is one ".exe" file. Since it stops with an error with the first driver, is there somebody who would know how to open the installer and extract individual drivers files in order to do a manual install, one by one? Again THIS is why we need a WIKI!!!!! If we had a wiki with a vista section we would have fewer pointless questions because they could look it up themselves. Please for the love of god make a Vista Secion in the Wiki!!! I Beg you PLEASE!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intelx Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Extracting drivers using "/V /a" with the installer works on Vista too; no need to do it on XP. The only things I needed of it were the brightness control, CD eject, and sound. Wireless with 5456 is available thru a Windows Update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Oughton Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Wow, this thread has moved on quite a bit since I posted my original instructions. I've had quite a few people PMing me with "help help help!"-related messages, so I really must emphasize how much this is not for the faint-hearted. My understanding of exactly how MBR and GPT are co-existing has moved on a long way since my original posts. Some of my assumptions were incorrect (although not in a way to cause damage, so don't worry...), and I now have a complete understanding of what was causing some of the partition numbering issues. The wiki will be updated very soon(ish). And I agree that a Vista section would be smart... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~T.E.K.B.O.I.~ Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 the mac is so awsome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petter321 Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 What about if you have 2 hard drives instead of 2 partitions on the same drive, can you then have Windows Vista on one and Mac OS X on the other and then select which disk to boot from at time of bootup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_X Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I got Vista RC1 installed and running very well on my black MacBook (2ghz, 1gb ram) together with Aero effects and all the other 'bells and whistles'. I tested out Media Center with my Xbox360 and it works too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/retro_x/237433740/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skylor Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 I got Vista RC1 installed and running very well on my black MacBook (2ghz, 1gb ram) together with Aero effects and all the other 'bells and whistles'. I tested out Media Center with my Xbox360 and it works too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/retro_x/237433740/ Did you egtt he sound to work??? o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_X Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Did you egtt he sound to work??? o.O Nope, I broke windows when I tried to install the ones Apple provided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdkramar Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 I found out a way to get Vista working without messing with any partitions. Just install XP first via bootcamp and then use Vista's upgrade option to install Vista. I did this on my MBP with no problems what-so-ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 damn i dont have a product key Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitorn Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Well, I just bought my first Mac 2 days ago, and I just love it.! Then, I got my hands on a Vista RC1 and installed it using boot camp. All went well, including the preservation of dual boot setup, WITHOUT any mbr mods. But, man, I just can't the video drivers installed correctly. Any ideas? Mackook, 2.0,white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtydevine Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 I do an install with bootcamp and Vista RC1, like i do with xp. I don't delete the efi partition and install on the partition created with bootcamp No errors during install. After installing extracting drivers ... i was unable to select the boot drive with the control panel. error with administrative rights despite i was administrator. so i used the first DVD of tiger and use it too change the startup. then everything is ok with tiger. i can change the startup to use vista using the startup disk selector. but i'm always unable to change the startup under vista. the only way i found was to boot with tiger dvd to do this. If someone as a solution i'll take it gratefull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtydevine Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 sorry : Macbook Black, 2go, 120 go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtydevine Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 my question is stupid. Sorry, I'm a Newbie in Mac World Using Alt key at startup show a boot menu ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirLink Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Even after extracting the files, I am unable to get the sound working... Any Ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtydevine Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 use the setup install in folder "program files\sigmatel041" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trollmaster Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Hello guys, I don't know if it's the right place to ask this kind of question but I'll try anyway: I have 64bit Imac (core 2 duo), with xp working fine through Boot Camp, and don't know if I should install Vista 64bit over it or the 32bit one. Anybody tried yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirLink Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 use the setup install in folder "program files\sigmatel041" I tried that. But I still have a red x on the speaker in the tray and no sound. though my directory was only SigmaTel. It didn't have the 041 on the end. Am I missing something? Also device manager shows SigmaTel High Definintion Audio Codec. I have two devices with exclamation marks. USB Human Interface Device and a Performance Counters device listed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugazi Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Can anyone tell me what their contrast, brightness, and gamma settings are. When I install XP or Vista it makes the colors look like {censored} so yea... please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asapreta Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 man, the image and colors in VISTA are fantastic! Ultimate Vista running AERO is beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiburcio Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 hi, got my new mac pro two days ago, installled the new apple firmware, installed bootcamp 1.1.1, then downloaded vista_rc1_5600 64bit version, made an installation-dvd with toaster and tried to install on my 50gb partition as it was described in this forum on page 5 by SashiNet and Brandon Live in july ?: ...delete the 200mb efi? partition, format the xp-partition (in my case the 50gb partition) and then choose it to install vista on it. yeah, sounds easy but it didn't work out for me. what i don't understand is e.g. that before it will start to install, it asks for drivers (i suppose the vista installer wants the drivers burned on the cd with bootcamp) but when the installer dvd is inside i cannot remove it in order to put in the "bootcamp-driver-cd"... then i tried with a usb-stick, but no success, the installer doesn't recognize the drivers on the usb-flash-driver... beside that when i choose the xp-partition to install vista, there is the information: the disc is not prepared for such an installation (sorry, i don't remember the exact words, because i am installing in german, could the language be the problem with the installation:) is there someone else with a similar problem, is it because of the new firmware? i am pretty confused... i will try now one more time. when i restart with option-key pushed, i see two boot harddrives (mac and vista) and the vista-installer-dvd. choosing the vista-boot will end in some error-message and with booting the dvd i will not get the promised repair-option (sth. that was also described here in the forum)... beside that the bootcamp assistant now tells me that the startvolume can either be partitioned nor reconstructed... cheers, tiburcio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 tiburcio, you can just use bootcamp to install vista rc1. no need to delete the efi partition, just use the boot camp setup assistant to partition, burn the drivers, pop in the vista dvd, and start the installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirLink Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I tried that. But I still have a red x on the speaker in the tray and no sound. though my directory was only SigmaTel. It didn't have the 041 on the end. Am I missing something? Also device manager shows SigmaTel High Definintion Audio Codec. I have two devices with exclamation marks. USB Human Interface Device and a Performance Counters device listed... Anyone have any further thoughts on getting the sound working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiburcio Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 ok, finally it worked out. after two blue error messages when i had to shut down my mac and after i said to myself, delay it for the next week, i switched it on this morning and the installation went on into its final steps... but while installing the macintosh drivers (xp-drivers!) i got the message from vista that there was a huge error ? it was also fatal to try the standby-button (which looks like a shut-down-button, because it's about the details that distinguish a very good graphical userface from a satisfying one:) because my baby wouldn't wake up and taking pains still trying:) first impression: i've never seen such a good plagiarism before (ok the apple guys also steel sometimes:), e.g. wasn't it sun that gave us some impressions how a modern gui could look like 4 years ago (i'm not sure about the accurate date:) when they presented effects like transparency in overlapping windows and how to deposit windows and files in 3d space in order to save some space (ok, and apple took the idea to flip windows to put some functions on their back, like dashboard does)... i must say the aero glass effect is quite impressive and at least on my mac pro it feels very fluent. what is the biggest weakness in that gui is that it's overcrowded with effects and the navigation elements seem not to follow a grid consistently, at least it seems like that... cheers, tiburcio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I just installed 5728 on my MacBook last night. I'm really imressed on how well Vista runs on my Mac. It's exceptionally speedy and I get Aero. The only downside to using Vista instead of XP is that the iSight drivers and the Eject button driver doesn't work. Now if only Apple could make a driver for the IR sensor so that I could use Media Center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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