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turpitude
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Wanted to test this on an XP era Mac.

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I have this Macbook (A1342) from mid-2010: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macb ... specs.html

It has a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo (P8600) and a Nvidia Geforce 320m.

I heard ReactOS's driver support got a lot better. I was wondering if I could install the XP bootcamp drivers on ReactOS? Has anyone tried this?
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You could be the first to try it!
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onestop_mid wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:17 am You could be the first to try it!
Lol, fair enough. Maybe I'll test it on the the live usb version first.
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turpitude wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:51 am Maybe I'll test it on the the live usb version first.
Keep in mind ReactOS doesn't support USB boot yet, but you can try it using RAM disk boot via USB: https://reactos.org/wiki/Installing_Rea ... B_RAM_boot
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binarymaster wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:06 pm
turpitude wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:51 am Maybe I'll test it on the the live usb version first.
Keep in mind ReactOS doesn't support USB boot yet, but you can try it using RAM disk boot via USB: https://reactos.org/wiki/Installing_Rea ... B_RAM_boot
Through various trickery I got it to USB boot on my MacBook.
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turpitude wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:32 pm
binarymaster wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:06 pm
turpitude wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:51 am Maybe I'll test it on the the live usb version first.
Keep in mind ReactOS doesn't support USB boot yet, but you can try it using RAM disk boot via USB: https://reactos.org/wiki/Installing_Rea ... B_RAM_boot
Through various trickery I got it to USB boot on my MacBook.
Could you please elaborate on this "trickery"? In order for a ReactOS USB to boot on a Macbook, it means that ReactOS must support both GPT and UEFI (as far as I understand). Could you please confirm that this is the case? Thanks.
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Yes, it will be interesting to learn what you got through this journey: what exactly you did to get run this.
Or, not exactly but nearly

BTW "boot from RAM disk off USB" link changed to:
https://reactos.org/wiki/Installing_Rea ... _USB_media
turpitude wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:32 pm
binarymaster wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:06 pm
turpitude wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:51 am Maybe I'll test it on the the live usb version first.
Keep in mind ReactOS doesn't support USB boot yet, but you can try it using RAM disk boot via USB: https://reactos.org/wiki/Installing_Rea ... B_RAM_boot
Through various trickery I got it to USB boot on my MacBook.
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