Boot camp & XP SP2 Disc

**chaosboi** · 24th January 2009, 04:54 PM

I'm just about to install XP onto a partition on my MacBook using boot camp, but the manual says that I can only use a XP disc with SP2 and not to update to SP2 later.

How do I know if my XP disc has SP2? There is nothing about SP2 printed on the disc.

EDIT: I just dug around in the files and found my disc is only SP1 :-(

So I can't use Boot camp??

**SyncMan** · 24th January 2009, 05:01 PM

Look up slipstreaming in Google.

**chaosboi** · 24th January 2009, 05:12 PM

following the slipstream steps now :-)

Ok, I'm now ready to burn my new XP SP2 disc, but the slipstream guide doesn't include buring with Toast.
Anyone have any ideas?

**PatrickH** · 24th January 2009, 06:03 PM

Ask a friend who has a copy of XP w/SP2 if you have any issues with the slipstream.

But I thought that you could only do the slipstreaming in Windows.

**Piratbyran** · 24th January 2009, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by PatrickH

Ask a friend who has a copy of XP w/SP2 if you have any issues with the slipstream.

But I thought that you could only do the slipstreaming in Windows.

Same, I just made a VM and did it that way.

**chaosboi** · 24th January 2009, 06:27 PM

yeah, I did the slipstream in a virtual window, but I don't have burning software on my virtual XP and was hoping on burning it with toast in OS-X.

Looks like I'll need to download a trial of Nero on my virtual machine.

**purana** · 25th January 2009, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by chaosboi

yeah, I did the slipstream in a virtual window, but I don't have burning software on my virtual XP and was hoping on burning it with toast in OS-X.

Looks like I'll need to download a trial of Nero on my virtual machine.

Just download ImgBurn for Win32, it's free. This will burn an iso image, and so will the free app on OSX called Burn.

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