No Go On Mac Pro

jbhbt7 · Mar 24, 2007

Trying to install XP Home sp1a on my mac pro. The XP install always hangs part way. What should I try?

New to Parallels, using the trial version.

darkone · Mar 24, 2007

does it hang at the same point ? Have you tried creating an image file of the cd and using that rather than the real cd..?

jbhbt7 · Mar 24, 2007

It usually hangs at the same spot, but has gotten past that point once and still froze. Will try an image.

darkone said:
does it hang at the same point ? Have you tried creating an image file of the cd and using that rather than the real cd..?

akadmon · Mar 24, 2007

You might get better luck with SP2. Try slipstreaming SP2 onto your SP1 install files. You can find instructions for this all over the net, e.g.,

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=103629

jbhbt7 · Mar 24, 2007

Was going to reply that creating a disk image did the trick since it went as far as saving settings. But while typing this reply it is stuck at 'saving settings' with 9 minutes to go.

Got a 2.66 mac pro with the cheapie 7300 video card and a fw800 external drive, 2 GB ram purchased with the machine from Apple

While typing this it appears to have completed after restarting the vm. Logging in now. So I'm at a loss to explain the problem. Definitely not ready to purchase until I can get more predictable results.

darkone said:
does it hang at the same point ? Have you tried creating an image file of the cd and using that rather than the real cd..?

jbhbt7 · Mar 24, 2007

Well it boots but is not stable. Frequent reboots. SP2 ehh? Might give it a try. Or go buy a copy of vista.

marc.heusser · Mar 24, 2007

Windows XP - SP2!

jbhbt7 said:
Well it boots but is not stable. Frequent reboots. SP2 ehh? Might give it a try. Or go buy a copy of vista.

Windows XP SP2 runs as stable as Windows goes. I'd save the money for Vista - get Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) instead, much more fun and technically much more advanced

I expect some really useful stuff in there.

stingerman · Mar 25, 2007

jbhbt7 said:
It usually hangs at the same spot, but has gotten past that point once and still froze. Will try an image.

I had the same problem with an SP1 Install CD. Downloded an SP2 iso image and that resolved the problem. Thank goodness for bittorrent.

jbhbt7 · Mar 25, 2007

SP2 it is. Thanks.

jbhbt7 · Mar 25, 2007

Success

Did another install without a problem. Amazed at how fast Parallels runs XP. Very cool.