Loklo Media 3D Animation Blog

Here’s the Youtube XBR webinar recording for those who missed it from Ken’s Blog on the Area.

So, I’ve taken the plunge, bought an old copy of XP Pro for good price, and decided that It would be worthwhile to have windows portable – so I can transfer my 3ds Max license as needed and work away from my desk once in a while. If it weren’t for Autodesk, I would not be doing this. Trust me.

So – enter the Bootcamp Assistant. I wanted a 21gb partition for Windows, and had 61gb free. But apparently I didn’t have enough contiguous free space available, so I had to settle with 14gb. (Found this out through multiple trial and error, running fsck from single user mode, trying to partition from bootable OS X installer disc, etc etc). So then I found nLite - a slick program to slipstream XP (or Vista), add service packs if needed, and remove unwanted components from XP, to minimize installed disk space. So I took out Outlook Express, all the unneeded languages, drivers, added SP3 (my disc was SP2), took out the games, and unneeded accessories, then burnt the disc again. Installed, and voila. It didn’t save as much room as I was hoping for, but every little bit helps on a 14 gb partition.

So I continued on with the Bootcamp process… It rebooted into the Windows installer (from the Disc), and there I had to reformat the partition again using the windows format, instead of the Mac format (found that out the hard way too… oh if only I read the manual first!). I decided to go with a FAT32 partition, so my files would be accessible from OS X. The rest, is just windows malarkey.

I still am not able to get iSight working in Windows on the MBP… driver won’t install properly. Not sure what to do. Not that it matters…