Yes, it’s true. I have to get Windows for developing purposes. One of my courses in the 4th semester require the AVR Studio IDE, which requires Windows XP. In “Embedded Processors” we are going to program an Atmel microcontroller to play the well known song “Frere Jacque”.

Luckily my university takes part in the MSDNAA developer program which gives you free access to operating systems, IDEs and other stuff from Microsoft. So here we go: Drop by at the office with a study attestation and get your login data. Then simply download the iso and burn it. “What, a 404kB exe file? What the hell?” Yes, they have their own installer, really! So what do you do with an exe file if you don’t own Windows? Fire up Darwine! Thanks to Mike, who builds Darwine snapshots regularly and offers them for download I now have the installer working and downloading a mysterious de_win_xp_pro_w_sp2.sdc file. “What the hell is sdc?” Next step in the installer is extracting the file, so let’s see if we get a burnable iso for BootCamp.

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Coming home from buying food I found my MacBook at full fan speed telling me that the start volume is full. Great! And WinHelper crashed. Even greater! But the installer is still open and tells me to click to install the product. So let’s see if we have an iso now.

Yey! An iso file! What a heck to just get Windows, no mentioning of installing and RUNNING it! Yak!
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