[Ham-Mac] "You cannot open this application ... because it is not suppotrted on this system"

[Steve Hellyer]

Hi Richard,

Yes in fact it the only way to run it.  It creates a big file on your  
Macintosh HFS+ volume which is the Windows C drive.  Before you make  
the decision to go Parallels vs Boot Camp look into the support  
needed for your applications ie. Do you need a serial ports?

Generally will be able to do more things with Boot Camp than  
Parallels because you actually run Windows 2003 natively on the  
Macintosh hardware directly. You do however have to boot back and  
forth to take advantage of each platform.  Parallels allows you to  
run Windows while running Mac OS X at the same time.

See:
http://forum.parallels.com/archive/index.php/t-1901.html
http://eudyptes.com/SerialClient.php

Remember all of this is new and most of it is beta.  Be prepared with  
a pioneering spirit at this stage.
And make back-ups!

73
Steve - VA3SPH

On 28-Jun-06, at 3:31 PM, Richard Hemingway wrote:

> Rick,
>
> I am thinking of running Windows also. Can you install Windows with  
> Parrallels without partitioning the HD, or do you do it like you do  
> with Boot Camp?  I guess my question is can you install Parrallels  
> without installing Boot Camp?
>
> Thanks,
>
> 73, Dick,.N5XRD