Hi Simon, Just one more thing: where did you obtain windows iso file? And also, can you remember at which stage you choose your flash drive for for windows and drivers? And did you have to donwload any additional drivers yourself? My macbook air is late 2010.
Many thanks Andrew > On 4 Jan 2016, at 05:42, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: > > HI Andrew, > > Yeah done it a few times, and have windows 10 currently on my mac book air > under bootcamp. > > I've tried installing it with out assistance but it appears no go at least I > haven't found a way yet. > > It's pretty easy really, run the Boot camp assistant in the Mac OSX and then > follow the prompts. > > All you need now is an ISO of the windows installer package and a USB / flash > drive with more than 8GIG of available storage > > Once bootcamp finishs what it needs to do the machine restarts in to the > windows installation the problem we have is that apple / windows drivers are > not installed until the very last stage of the setup, > > > If you have the ISO on your desktop then bootcamp should pick it up without > problem and you then only need to make sure the flash drive is selected as > bootcamp writes / downloads the apple windows bootcamp drivers to the flash > drive. > And then that's where windows is actually installed from. > Oh and the only thing to be aware of is the step that asks you to set the > drive partition size by default it only gives you 20GB > > Hope this helps. > > Simon F > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Lamanche > Sent: Monday, 4 January 2016 5:42 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Installing Windows 7 under bootcamp without sighted assistance > > Hi, > > Has anyone on the list had experience of installing Windows 7 in Bootcamp > without sighted assistance? Having looked at the process on Apple's support > pages, I can see that it is probably not possible. Also, even if sighted > assistance is required, would you mind sharing your experience? Please feel > free to write off list. I'd appreciate that. > > Andrew > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
