How to Play Warhammer Online On Your Mac (Page 3)
How to Play Warhammer Online Via Boot Camp
If you decide to use Boot Camp, here’s what I recommend you do:
1. Get your Leopard DVD.
2. Back up your system with Time Machine.
3. Insert your Leopard DVD and do a clean install of Leopard so your drive is wiped clean.
4. After installing Leopard, run Software Update and update Leopard with all patches.
5. Get your Windows disk and make sure that if you are installing Windows XP that it’s SP2 or higher. Do NOT try to install earlier versions of Windows XP or it may not install properly or may screw up Boot Camp’s partitioning, etc. Trust me, I’ve tried it and it won’t work out well for you.
6. Start the Boot Camp utility and do the Windows installation, etc.
7. Boot into Windows after the installation and then start updating Windows (isn’t patching fun? heh, heh, heh). It’ll take a while but you’re better off updating Windows before you start installing Warhammer Online.
8. Find a free antivirus and install it in Windows. Remember that Windows is inherently insecure so make sure you get some kind of antivirus going as soon as possible.
9. Break out your Warhammer Online DVDs and start the installation.
10. After the installation start Warhammer Online and then…start patching again! Yep, you’ll need to get WAR patched and up to date before you can play.
11. After WAR is patched, kick back and enjoy!
12. After you get your fill of WAR, boot back into Leopard and then restore your system via the Migration Assistant utility so that you have all of your apps, settings, etc. back the way they were before you did the clean install (the MA utility is in your Utilities folder in your Applications folder).
Now some of you might be wondering why I recommend doing a clean install in the first place. Well I’ve had some bad experiences with Boot Camp in the past and I’ve found that doing a clean install can help avoid potential disk problems.
And since everything is backed up via Time Machine, the clean install of Leopard really isn’t much of a problem. It just takes a little bit longer to get your system back the way it was when you use the Migration utility.
You can, obviously, skip the clean install if you want and see how it goes by simply starting the Boot Camp assistant but if it bombs out on you or you have disk error problems then consider doing a clean install. Either way make sure that you have your system backed up via Time Machine *before* you mess around with Boot Camp.
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