Installing Windows XP

Greetings,

I have installed Parallels on my MBpro. I am in the process of installing Windows XP. At this point, I am being asked to agree or disagree to the licensing policy. I am being asked to push "F8=I" to agree. I have been stuck at this point for 6 hours. I cannot get the F8-I keys to work, assuming that I'm supposed to push all three.

I would appreciate any help that I can get

jsimp3

 

Oh? Is it not just F8? When I installed Windows XP on PCs every time I just press F8 to agree to the policy.

 

Try holding down the fn key and then pushing the F8 key.

 

Hello there,

I encountered the same problem when I tried to install XP last week. I couldn't press F8 to make it work neither. Thought it was the problem of the CD and I exchanged it for a new XP CD from the store the next day. However, I couldn't install the XP by clicking right forward button anymore, as the hard disk had been created as per Alex from parallel's support.

Alex gave me a list of instructions (below for your reference if you need it), but none of them seem to work for me so far.

QUOTE:
Such situation happens when the virtual hard disk has been created but
an Operating System hasn't been installed on it. Check that your
BOOTABLE and installation media is connected and the appropriative Boot
sequence ('CD-ROM, Hard disk, Floppy' or 'Floppy, Hard disk, CD-ROM') is
set.

If you install from a real CD/DVD:

Select the Use real CD/DVD-ROM and specify which real drive to connect
to the virtual device in the CD/DVD-ROM Drives list (see the picture).

Insert the CD/DVD disk with the operating system distribution into the
appropriate drive of your computer.

If you install from an .iso image file:

Check the Use image file option and specify the path to the .iso
distribution file in the Image File field.

Try to clean your CD & CD drive.
If no help, try to to create .iso image from your CD and install from it.

Also prevent the Mac HD to go to sleep at any time, using the Mac Energy
Saver (otherwise, the installation of the XP guest got stuck during the
installation of the XP drivers).
UNQUOTE

I've been working on this problem for over a week, but still haven't installed XP successfully. Getting really frustrated.

Another question, if I uninstall parallel desktop and reinstall it again by downloading it from the website, will that give me a clean slate and start from scratch?

Would appreciate it greatly if anyone can give me a solution.
Thanks.
Grace

 

Function key did the trick

I had this exact same problem when I tried to install an oem version of windows xp. I read in the user manual that oem operating systems are not supported - wish I knew that before shelling out $100. If you are trying to install an oem version of windows xp, the problem you are having may be related - but I doubt it.

I abandoned my atempt to install the oem version and moved on to full version, where I encountered the same problem. Fortunately, I had read murphy's post about holding down the function key while hitting f8. This did the trick!

Moral of the story:

Hold down the function key while hitting f8.

-Dave

 

Thanks

Thanks for the help guys. The fn key did the trick. I felt like I had just walked on the moon.

jsimp3