Since Teamprise is a front-end to Microsoft software, and it's cross-platform, it stands to reason that I'd need a Windows box to poke around with from time to time. And since VirtualPC is so painfully slow on my G5, I decided to make Boot Camp run on the iMac.
I've got to say: installation of Windows with Boot Camp was painless. Really, aside from the 39 minute[1] installation of XP, the whole process took just a few minutes. Dynamically resizing HFS+ partitions while they're mounted? Absolutely awesome!
XP hums on this baby. So much nicer than VirtualPC.
Update: After my initial success, I got cocky. I resized my HFS+ partition again, to make room for Linux. I wanted it to triple-boot OS X, XP and Ubuntu. The Ubuntu will only run in text mode (the assumption about the refresh rate for the LCD is wrong), but it does run. Everything installs fine - seemingly - until it tries to run elilo to update the bootloader. Then things were very unhappy. Strangely, Windows crapped out at the same time[2], so now I have neither Windows nor Ubuntu working. OS X, of course, still rocks. So I'm off to reinstall Windows[3] again.
- Why do all Windows installations take 39 minutes? Rather, why do all Windows installations claim they're going to take 39 minutes? Why 39? They might as well have just said 42, at least that would have been funny.
- Unknown if elilo twiddled something with Windows, or if the two are unrelated.
- That's right, another "39" minutes...
Heh -- just last night I was installing Windows on a home machine and I found myself wondering why that estimate is always 39 minutes...
Another install is time enough for 39 Minutes of Bliss