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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / February 2006Virtual PC 7 installation with 10.4.5
I am trying to load Virtual PC 7 on an IBook (1.33 GHZ PowerPC G4, with 1 GB DDR SDRAM) purchased last June that has been upgraded to 10.4.5. There is only one User on the system and that User is configured as Admin. I loaded version 7 from the CD. When the required restart completed, I loaded version 7.02 that I downloaded from the Microsoft website. With the CD in the drive, I loaded Virtual PC from the Applications folder. The installation process continued. Just before the screen to download the operating system included on the Virtual PC CD appeared I received a message that I needed Administrator privileges to continue. I can see the screen that allows me to download Windows 2000 from the Virtual PC CD, but I cannot get past the notification on not having Administrator privileges. I tried uninstalling the software using the CD program, creating a new user that had administrator privileges, logging in with that new user and reinstalling. I received the same error message. Any suggestions? - Michele try restarting the Mac OS in Safe Boot and install from there Thank you Mr. Power for your suggestion. I rebooted with the Shift key held down until the login screen appeared with "Safe Boot" in red. I repeated the installation with the Shift key held down through each reboot. I got as far as the screen appeared with the three options for loading Windows. That that point the message "You must be logged in as an administrator to complete the Virtual PC installation" appeared. I have instructions for logging on as a "Root User", if you think that might help. Unfortunately, I have not used UNIX/Linux about two decades and would prefer to try other options first. Any other ideas? Thank you very much for your help. Michele On 2/27/06 12:13 PM, in article 1141071200.565474.34520@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Paul Power" <paulkpower@gmail.com> wrote: > try restarting the Mac OS in Safe Boot and install from there Close ALL applications. Go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Click on your hard disk and select 'Repair Disk Permissions' That might work Thank You...Thank You...Thank You!!!! Repairing Disk Permissions solved the problem. I completed loading VPC and Windows 2000. I also loaded the software I wanted to run and moved a text file from OS X to Windows 2000 and successfully uploaded it. All went without a problem. Windows runs a bit slower than my 20th Century vintage PC which is understandable because it is loaded on a 12'' IBook. It is fast enough for me. Thank you for you assistance and for your prompt replies. Michele Just for the record, my permissions were set at drwxrwxr-x and Disk Utility changed them to drwxrwxr-t. On 2/27/06 7:31 PM, in article 1141097492.309504.50070@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Paul Power" <paulkpower@gmail.com> wrote: > Close ALL applications. Go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. > Click on your hard disk and select 'Repair Disk Permissions' > > That might work |
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