[staloysius334]

Does the new Boot Camp installation process or the other windows installation method enable Windows Media Center 2005 to be installed onto a Mini Mac?

I know the boot camp instructions says winxp pro or home only with SP2 because it can only deal with one disc install. But there is a method of making the Media Center two disc into one DVD, so would this work?

[harrisjamieh]

Maybe the method the original hack uses is slightly different to Apple's, but from the onmac.net wiki:

There is a modification to narf2006 and blanka's installer that claims to allow a Media Centre Edition 2005 install to proceed if the two CDs are combined onto one DVD for install.

[staloysius334]

has anyone succesfully managed to install Windows media center 2005 onto a mac?

this is the only thing which is stopping me from getting a MiniMac at the moment

[icruise]

It's "Mac mini" and I don't think Boot Camp officially supports Media Center. Whether someone will get it working or not is anybody's guess, but I imagine they will.

[mac128k_1984]

MCE 2005 OEM installs just fine.

All you have to do is use an external drive to hold install disc 2 during the install. It can be an external CD/DVD or a HD with the contents of disc 2 copied to it.

When the install process asks for XP disc 2 , just hit OK and then change the path to the external drive, in my case it was D:.

The Apple drivers work just fine as well, and if you have the Microsoft Remote and sensor it works great.

I set it up on a Mac Mini which I think makes a perfect small silent media computer to hook to a HDTV.