Some very interesting changes in how Windows is installed in Boot Camp on OS X 10.11 “El Capitan”. When you open Boot Camp Assistant on a new Mac that supports Windows 8 or later, you’ll get the new Boot Camp interface.

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I will plant you a lilac tree pdf free download. Notice the ISO image and partitioning are all on a single screen. Prior to El Capitan, you had to insert a USB Flash Drive and Boot Camp Assistant copied the Windows installer from an ISO disk image to the flash drive, and then downloaded and set up the Windows drivers to the correct location in the installer for the Mac hardware. El Capitan makes this a lot simpler. Just select the ISO and how much space you want from Boot Camp, and then you click Install.

Oct 01, 2015 It places this partition right after the recovery partition, and before the Boot Camp partition, as shown below. Definitely great news for those looking to install Windows on an El Capitan Mac as the whole process is a lot simpler. However, this particular setup is not available for all El Capitan supported Macs.
Boot Camp アシスタントで Windows パーティションのサイズを設定する画面が表示されたら、前セクションのストレージ容量の最小条件を参考にして、要件に応じて適切なパーティションサイズを設定してください。設定後にサイズを変更することはできません。.
Boot Camp Supports existing Boot Camp installations with Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10. New Boot Camp installations require Windows 8 or Windows 10 (sold separately). Exchange Support Requires Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 4, Exchange Server 2010, or Exchange 2013.

Not sure about Boot Camp Assistant, but with my fresh copy of El Capitan running, Parallels with Windows 7 loaded quickly and seems to be fully functional. In this short video, i’m going to be discussing some changes to Boot Camp Assistant iv’e noticed in the new iteration of OS X. Leave a like if you enjoyed!

After Boot Camp Assistantd completes, OS X restarts to the Windows installer, and you follow the normal Windows installation.

Behind the Scenes

So how is this possible? Where is the Windows installer if there is no installation media? Boot Camp Assistant doesn’t just create a Boot Camp partition, but also creates an additional partition called “OSXRESERVED” that is FAT32 formatted. It places this partition right after the recovery partition, and before the Boot Camp partition, as shown below.

The command line make this really clear. Partition 1 is the standard EFI partition, partition 2 is the Mac partition, partition 3 is the Recovery partition. All standard stuff. Partition 4 is now the OSXRESERVED partition, and partition 5 is the BOOTCAMP partition. You’ll also notice that disk2 is the Windows install ISO disk image that the Windows install files are copied from.

The OSXRESERVED partition has all the installer files, the Boot Camp drivers for Windows, and the EFI files for booting.

If you are familiar with EFI booting on OS X, you’ll see a familiar setup. The EFI folder on the OSXRESERVED partition is the same one you would normally find on the EFI partition (normally disk0s1). Saving capitalism pdf free download. It appears that newer Macs have the ability to detect this partition and present it to Windows as if it were EFI installation media (such as a DVD or USB Flash drive).

So what happens to this partition after you are done installing? During the next boot into OS X, the OSXRESERVED partition is removed and put back into the Core Storage container of the OS X partition:

Note that the Device is disk0s5 since the other partition existed on startup, but then it was deleted. On next reboot, this device will change back to disk0s4, which is the standard device location for a Boot Camp partition.

This setup is not supported on all Macs that run El Capitan. Only hardware that has newer firmware supports this. We did a survey of all the shipping Macs, and here are the ones that support this new slicker setup: Chuck klosterman presents chuck klosterman x pdf free download.

Supported:

Mac Pro
MacBook Air 13‑inch
MacBook Air 11‑inch
MacBook Pro 13‑inch
MacBook Pro 15‑inch

Older USB Installation

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iMac 21.5″
iMac 27″
MacBook Pro 13‑inch
USB-C MacBook (surprising)

El Capitan’s Boot Camp-related updates are not just limited to Boot Camp Assistant. There are also changes in how Boot Camp is affected by the new System Integrity Protection (SIP). Tune in tomorrow for the next segment.

Do you have Windows running on your Mac in a Boot Camp partition? Check out Winclone and Boot Runner to backup, migrate, and manage your Boot Camp partition.

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