How To Install Windows 8. On Mac Without Boot Camp. Mac users have a couple of options when it comes to installing and running Windows on Mac. One can install Windows 8. Mac with the help of Boot Camp software, use virtualization software like Virtual. Box to install Windows 8. Mac, or manually create a new partition and then install Windows 8. Boot Camp. In one of our previous articles, we discussed about installing Windows 8. Mac with the help of Apple’s Boot Camp software. · You can use Boot Camp to install Windows 10 on supported Mac models that have OS X Yosemite or later installed. NAVY BOOT CAMP GRADUATION PREPARATION AND SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR PARENTS AND LOVED ONES. This is a guide for Navy Families who will visit the Great Lakes Naval Station. In this guide, we’re going to show you how to install Windows 8. Mac without Boot Camp software. This method involves creating a new partition for Windows, preparing a bootable Windows 8. USB, and of course, installing Windows 8. Mac. Complete the given below instructions to successfully install Windows 8. Update: As of April 2016, AMD has finally released an updated Radeon Boot Camp driver for the 2015 MacBook Pro Retina 15″ and similar iMac Retina models. This.Mac without Boot Camp software. Step 1: Turn on your Mac machine and boot into Mac OS X. Open Launchpad, click Other, and then click Disk Utility to open the same. Step 2: Once Disk Utility is launched, select the drive (your SSD or HDD) in the left- side, and then switch to the Partition tab. Step 3: Next, click on the small “+” sign to create a new partition. Step 4: Select the newly created partition, enter a name for your new partition (remember the name as you can easily select the newly created partition later while installing Windows), select the size (at least 2. GB), and then select the format as DOS (FAT) or Ex. FAT. You can select either DOS or Ex. Fat here, as you can format the partition with NTFS while installing Windows. Click Apply button to create a new partition to install Windows. Click on the Partition button when you see the warning message. Once the new partition is ready, close Disk Utility. Step 5: Next, you need to prepare bootable Windows 8. We advise you follow our how to create bootable Windows 8. USB on Mac guide to quickly create the bootable installation media and also download important support software from Apple. And if you already have the bootable media, you can proceed to the next step. Step 6: Once you have the bootable media, restart your Mac, hold down the Alt (Option) key while restarting the Mac, choose the option titled Windows (don’t select EFI unless you are very sure) to begin installing Windows on your Mac. Step 7: Follow the simple on- screen instructions, and when you see the partition selection screen, select the newly created partition (be sure to select the right partition), click Format to format the partition with NTFS, select the formatted partition, and then click Install button to continue installing Windows on your Mac. Note that during the installation, your system will be rebooted a couple of times. Every time your system reboots, hold down the Alt (Option) key, and then select Windows to continue the installation. Step 8: From here on, you need to follow the normal Windows 8. Step 9: Once Windows is installed on your Mac, Boot Camp setup will automatically launch. Click Next button, accept license agreement, and then click Next button again to begin installing support drivers. Once done, you’ll be asked to reboot your system to complete the installation. That’s it! Enjoy Windows 8. Mac. If you plan to use Windows as your default operating system, we suggest you set Windows as default OS in boot selection screen to avoid pressing the Alt key every time you turn on your Mac. How to quickly reboot into Mac from Windows guide might also interest you. How to Triple- Boot Your Mac with Windows and Linux, No Boot Camp Required. Apple has streamlined the process of dual booting Windows on your Mac, but when it comes to Linux, Boot Camp isn't so friendly. Here's how to triple- boot your Mac with OS X, Windows 7, and the shiny new Ubuntu 1. Ubuntu 1. 0. 0. 4 is out today, and there are quite a few improvements in "Lucid Lynx," a…Read more If you're a Mac user, you may have already used Apple's Boot Camp to get Windows on your system for those must- have programs. With a fast new Ubuntu out, however, you might want to give it a try—but installing Linux isn't exactly easy on Macs, since they don't recognize it by default. Also complicating things? Linux and Windows' boot loaders will attempt to take over one another. Usually, this is a good thing, because Linux's multi- system loader makes the experience more seamless for PC users—but on a Mac, this really just makes things more difficult (no one wants to go through two menus to choose their OS). As such, installing Linux needs to be done with certain settings applied, or you'll be left with a jumbled mess. Here's a step- by- step guide to making your triple booting experience as user- friendly as possible. Note that I will go through the steps to installing both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 1. Windows installed, that shouldn't be an issue—just skip the Windows installation step and move on to installing Ubuntu, which is the more complicated (and important) part anyways. Install the r. EFIt Boot Menu for Macs. Before we do anything else, we're going to install a new boot menu for your Mac that will make your life during and after installation much easier. EFIt will show up every time you start up your computer, asking you which OS you want to use. By default, it will boot into OS X after 2. It's super customizable, though, so you can change your default OS if you want to, as well as tweak other settings to fit into your workflow as best as possible. Head on over to r. EFIt's Source. Forge page and download the DMG for the most recent version of the installer (0. Open it up and launch the installer package, and go through the installation process (which is pretty self- explanatory; it'll do all the work for you). Afterwards, restart your computer to see if it works! If everything goes as planned, your screen should look something like the screen at the top of this article (though if not, you might have to restart twice to get it to show up). Obviously, it'll only have one or two icons instead of three—the others come next! At this point, the r. EFIt boot menu is fully functional, though if you want to customize it, you'll have to edit your configuration file. More information on this is available in r. EFIt's documentation; I won't get deep into it now, but it's not very difficult to tweak things like the default OS, or which tools show up along the bottom. You just need to "uncomment" the given option by removing the # before the relevant command in the text file. You can also customize the icons by swapping your own . EFIt's folder on your hard drive. You can do that now, or move on to partitioning your disk. Partition Your Hard Drive with Disk Utility. We won't be using Boot Camp to partition our disk, mostly because we don't need to. Since we're triple- booting, it's easier to see it all at once, rather than let some tool do it for us (if you've already installed Windows using Boot Camp, though, that's fine—just ignore the Windows parts of this step). Open up Disk Utility, click on your main drive (the very top option in the sidebar) and head to the "Partition" tab. We're going to make three new partitions; one for Windows, one for Linux, and one for our Linux swap space, the space Linux uses if it runs out of memory. To do this, just click on your Macintosh HD partition. If you have multiple partitions already, click on the one from which you want to take back some space. Next, hit the plus sign enough times so that you have four total partitions. Click on your first new partition (the one under "Macintosh HD") and on the right side of the window, type "WINDOWS" in the name box. Format this Windows partition to MS- DOS, then make the size whatever you want. The sizes don't particularly matter, as long as your OS will fit on the partition, and you have enough extra space for whatever you want. I partitioned 5. 0 GB to each OS—probably overkill, but hey, I've got a big drive. Do the same for a Linux and Linux swap partition, formatting each to MS- DOS (the format isn't super necessary, but at least for the Windows installation it does make the process easier). Hit the apply button and let Disk Utility do its thing—it'll seem like it stops responding, but just leave it be for a minute, and you should be all set. Once it's done, move on to the next step. Installing Windows 7. Insert your Windows 7 install disc and restart your computer, unless you've already installed it, in which case, move on to installing Ubuntu). As your computer starts up, listen for the familiar Mac startup sound, then immediately press and hold the Option (or "Alt") key on your keyboard, until you see a drive icon with the word r. EFIt under it. You'll need to give your system a second to check the CD drives (assuming you're running Snow Leopard, which is a little slow at doing so), but your Windows CD should pop up on the right. Click on the CD icon, then hit Enter to boot into the installation. You might also get a screen that says "Press any key to boot from CD. Go ahead and navigate through the first few steps of the installation. When you're asked what type of install you want to perform, choose "custom install", so you can pick and format the partition. You'll want to choose the one named WINDOWS (obviously), though you'll have to format it by clicking "drive options" and then "Format". It should reformat that partition to NTFS for you, after which you can hit the next button. It'll take a little while to install, and it'll restart a few times during that process—whenever it does, select the Windows partition on boot (which should show up in r. EFIt now, so you won't need to hold option down again). When it's done and you finally get to the Windows desktop, you can go ahead and install the Boot Camp drivers from your Leopard or Snow Leopard install DVD. Since your eject key won't work yet, you'll have to eject your Windows disc manually by going into Windows Explorer, clicking on your optical drive, then choosing the "Eject" button in the toolbar. After inserting your Snow Leopard DVD, it should start automatically with the option to run setup. Pick that, then let the installation run. Once you're done, head back over to OS X, so you can burn and install Ubuntu. Installing Ubuntu 1. If you don't already have an Ubuntu installation CD, you'll need to head back into your Mac system (or Windows, if you want to give it a go) and grab the ISO from Ubuntu's website. Make sure you get the right one for your machine, whether it be a desktop/laptop or a netbook, and 3. Once it's downloaded, burn it with your burning program of choice (I'm quite partial to the flexible, open- source Burn myself, though you could also do it with Disk Utility). Once it's burned, keep it in the drive and restart your computer, once again holding option at the startup sound and clicking on the CD that shows up in your boot menu. It will say it's a Windows disc, but don't worry—it's the right one. OS X is just a little confused when it comes to the world outside itself. Mac OS X only: Free, open source application Burn lets you burn almost any kind of CD or DVD on…Read more It'll take a few minutes for the CD to boot, but you should eventually be presented with the option to try Ubuntu or install it on your computer. Choose install, then go through the first few steps of the process, picking your language, time zone, and keyboard type (USA probably works fine, but I usually pick USA - Macintosh because, you know, that's what I have). When you're presented with the partition window, choose the bottom option to "specify partitions manually"—this is where the fancy footwork comes in. Double click on your Linux partition's entry. If you've been following this how- to to the letter, it should be /dev/sda. You'll be presented with a window in which you manually set the partition's characteristics. I chose to use the partition as Ext. Ext. 4 seems to be the new standard, so I'd recommend it if you don't know the difference between them all.
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