XP on a Mac
April 8th, 2006So once you’ve got a copy of XP with SP2 it really is trivially easy. One odd thing I did notice though. When you run boot camp it has a partition resizing utility that work like a champ. However if you install windows after letting boot camp create a partition, then try to install windows again and just let the windows installer delete and recreate that partition it fails after the first installer reboot. I had to start over with boot camp and restore my disk to one partition then recreate a windows partition. I may have try to install one more time as I chose NTFS instead of FAT32 and OS X can only read from NTFS while it can RW from FAT32. I’ll see how much I need to write stuff to disk from OS X.
Anyway, I’m stragely giddy about using windows on Apple hardware and I don’t know why. I guess it’s a combination of novelty and the “I never thought I’d see the day” factor.
I can say I actually need this though because, while understandable, the Mono IDE’s for OS X leave something to be desired (like desiring they exist). There’s apparently a group working on extending xcode to provide for good mono development, but god only knows when they’ll finish.