Load Windows Media Center on an Intel Mac
You can load Windows XP Pro on your Intel Mac, now you have the ability to load Windows Media Center (WMC) on your Intel Mac.
From The osx86project:
OK so I wanted Media Center 2005 installed on my iMac so I started trying to figure out a few things. With the help of several people I managed to edit the slipstream so that it will support MCE2005 (before it would break the install and only install XP SP2 Pro leaving out the MCE parts).
Now it works BUT there is one catch. Of course you need to own MCE but you have to burn it onto a DVD. The problem is that at a certain point in the install MCE normally asks for CD2 of MCE (assuming you aren’t using a DVD version) but it doesn’t eject CD1….and the intel imac doesn’t have a manual eject button or pinhole so you are SOL. Only fix to this is to put all the files onto 1 DVD. The rest of the process is the same though and I have tweaked the install guide accordingly.
Please note that this is only for MCE2005 and not XP Pro (I hope to figure out other versions later if I get the time).
Anyway enjoy and thanks again to Narf and blanka for the good work.
12 Comments, Comment or Trackback
Mike C.
It seams the flood gates have been opened, maybe someday we’ll actually be able to install media center edition on a regular pc-not some “special” media one.
Mar 17th, 2006
Jon
What, the Intel iMacs can’t eject the disc when you go in there with a paper clip? I thought there was a little thing you could manually push inside the drive to “hard-eject” discs…
I can’t imagine Apple has taken that way of recovering your discs when you computer is refusing to start…
Mar 17th, 2006
R031E5
Unfortunately they don’t have a pinhole. I had the same problem when trying to install a Linux distro, it asked for CD 2 but I couldn’t eject it nor manually remove the disk, specially because I have a Powerbook :p
Mar 17th, 2006
Tan The Man
Super cool.
Mar 18th, 2006
Derek Scott
Mike C: I’m pretty sure WIndows Media Center Edition doesn’t require a “special media pc” to run . Someone at work had it installed on a pretty crappy custom built pc.
Mar 18th, 2006
Lisa
Um… don’t Macs have a manual eject button on their keyboards…?
I thought that was a standard feature on Macs. Has that changed?
Mar 21st, 2006
Man43
Are you sure that the fans on your Mac are running when you boot it in XP? I think they are not running.
Mar 22nd, 2006
Javier
i have a pc p4 2.5 1.5 memory 200gig its a sony and it ame with xp home but i want to upgrade to MCE 2005. how do i go about it. thnak you
Apr 3rd, 2006
ODESSIA
WOULD LIKE TO INSTAL THIS
Jun 9th, 2006
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