flurby
6th April 2006, 04:10 AM
For anyone interested... I've successfully installed XP Media Center 2005 with Boot Camp. The one tricky bit is it's a multi-CD installation, and the Mini doesn't have an eject button for the drive...
I worked around it by booting back into OS X after the first reboot in the Windows installation process, copied the contents of CD2 onto the FAT partition, and then rebooted into the Windows partition and continued the installation. Then when it asked for CD2 I just pointed it to the files I copied on C:\.
You can probably just format the partition with FAT in OS X and copy the files before starting the install if you wanted to skip the reboot step. Another way that would probably work is to copy all the Windows install files onto a single DVD, but I haven't tried that out either.
Anyway, performance of the MCE seems pretty good, the interface is slick and responsive with all the 3-d effect niceties. Now the trick is to find a USB TV encoder that works in both OS X and Windows...
I worked around it by booting back into OS X after the first reboot in the Windows installation process, copied the contents of CD2 onto the FAT partition, and then rebooted into the Windows partition and continued the installation. Then when it asked for CD2 I just pointed it to the files I copied on C:\.
You can probably just format the partition with FAT in OS X and copy the files before starting the install if you wanted to skip the reboot step. Another way that would probably work is to copy all the Windows install files onto a single DVD, but I haven't tried that out either.
Anyway, performance of the MCE seems pretty good, the interface is slick and responsive with all the 3-d effect niceties. Now the trick is to find a USB TV encoder that works in both OS X and Windows...