Installing XP on Virtual PC for Mac - HELP!

[Jeff Zajac]

Hi
I've twice tried installing XP onto my iMac G5 machine, attempting to
install it on the partition created by the Virtual PC for Mac software
created by Microsoft.

However, both times, after successfully installing Virtual PC for Mac
(Version 7), XP would not install. First, I got a message stating: "setup
cannot copy the file parport.sys." I got similar messages for 3 other files
including a .dll file.

I hit the ESC key to continue installing regardless. Then, with 28% of the
installation complete, the installation stalled when copying the
"driver.cab" file.

I desperately need a Windows platform on my Mac. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Jeff Zajac

 

[Menno Hershberger]

Hi
I've twice tried installing XP onto my iMac G5 machine, attempting to
install it on the partition created by the Virtual PC for Mac software
created by Microsoft.

However, both times, after successfully installing Virtual PC for Mac
(Version 7), XP would not install. First, I got a message stating:
"setup cannot copy the file parport.sys." I got similar messages for 3
other files including a .dll file.

I hit the ESC key to continue installing regardless. Then, with 28% of
the installation complete, the installation stalled when copying the
"driver.cab" file.

I desperately need a Windows platform on my Mac. Can anyone help?
Thanks!

See if the folks in microsoft.public.virtualpc can help you.

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Hi
I've twice tried installing XP onto my iMac G5 machine, attempting to
install it on the partition created by the Virtual PC for Mac software
created by Microsoft.

However, both times, after successfully installing Virtual PC for Mac
(Version 7), XP would not install. First, I got a message stating: "setup
cannot copy the file parport.sys." I got similar messages for 3 other files
including a .dll file.

I hit the ESC key to continue installing regardless. Then, with 28% of the
installation complete, the installation stalled when copying the
"driver.cab" file.

I desperately need a Windows platform on my Mac. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Driver.cab is a pretty big file. Install can appear to stall during the
copy of that file. I would think this would be even more dramatic when
running under a VPC, especially if you have your virtual HD set to
dynamically size as it must wait for VPC to resize the HD file and copy the
file to the VHD.

Also, have you allocated enough resources to the virtual machine?
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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