Oracle Boot Camp training

Not sure of the best place to ask this question so will try here. I have been checking out the Oracle Boot camps for an intense training course for certification. One camp can be found at http://www.trainingcamp.com/us/training/oracle/oracle.asp
Anybody have any thoughts on these? Any good camps? bad camps? etc?

My thoughts are.
1. Certification is less useful than experience.
2. Cramming does not equal learning.
3. They can't spell and.
4. In the unlikely result it helps in getting a job it will probably followed up by a question on here along the lines of "I am new to Oracle but I have been given this very advanced task to complete ..."

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Cinema DIsplay sleeps when I use Boot Camp with Radeon 5870 through DVI connection

I just created a bootcamp partition on my Mac Pro (1,1) with Radeon 5870 and XP Professional so I can play Train Simulator 2012 with maxed out settings. Well after hours of installing Windows XP and updating it (via Parallels so I could do other things while waiitng for Windows) I got Train Simulator 2012 installed, Windows XP Professional fully upto date and reboot to bootcamp. I see the Windows screen and then my monitor goes to sleep (best guess). I am using an Apple Cinema Display 20" and is of course connected to the DVI port. One guess (and I hope I am totally wrong about this) is I think I remember reading the DVI port id display 3 not 1. I hope this isn't the problem (requiring me to buy a $40 Mini Display port for DVI adapter.
Any ideas as to why this is happening? I was so looking forward to playing Train Simulator with maxed out graphics via Boot Camp with the Radeon 5870 1GB. Don't get me started as to why my line out is not being detected by XP Pro.
I also have the latest Bootcamp drivers for XP (3.2).

Never used XP and on Mac Pro I wanted to use all 4-cores and more than 1.9GB RAM but often it seems that in the past and with Fusion anyway you would need to install Windows updates and drivers natively not thru or in the VM.

HT3777 why does my boot camp on my mac pro ask for a windows 7 disk

why does my boot camp on my mac pro ask for a windows 7 disk? Can I just install my vista home premium in and proceed?

Lion and Mountain Lion can only install 7 under BootCamp.
You can load Vista under a VM (virtual machine) such as Parallels or VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox (Oracle ownload).

Can I run a Free version of Windows (Vista, XP, 7) through Boot Camp

I want to take some online training for Visio and MS Project but need the programs on my computer for the classes. Instead of buying all of them, I would like to download free trail versions of Viso and Project and run them through a free trial version of Windows XP, Visa, or 7 via Boot Camp.
Any ideas whether it will work, recommendations, pitfalls?
Thanks
Scott

Will it be pretty straight forward to uninstall the MS software after is expires?
MS uninstall is pretty straightforward. Just use the Programs Control Panel. But you wouldn't be able to reinstall the trials without completely reloading Windows. (Windows remembers the date the trial originally started.) Virtualization options like Parallels and Fusion are good tools (I use Fusion daily) but the additional learning curve for virtualization may or may not be something you want to deal with right now since you're trying to learn something else. But virtualization has advantages if you do much non-video work in Windows, so is something to keep in mind in the future. (e.g.: no need to reboot to use Windows or OSX.) Parallels and Fusion have trial versions so you can test the waters when you're ready.
Obviously I am a novice to Boot Camp and my biggest priority is to not mess up the Mac side when I am doing this.
Even if you use Boot Camp, just run Boot Camp Assistant after you're done to remove the Boot Camp partition. You will then have your Mac back to it's pre-Windows configuration.

Linux using boot camp is it possible why people choose VMware or parallels?

Hi everyone,
Has anyone installed Linux using boot camp ? I'm asking this because i want to install the latest version of oracle database 11g and i need to install Linux or Windows to run the server.
There is no version of Oracle 11g for macosx atm.
Why people choose VMware and Parallels instead of using boot camp?
Please give some feedback.
Greatfully,
Nuno

UrbanJenkie wrote:
Hi everyone,
Hi Nuno and welcome to Discussions,
Has anyone installed Linux using boot camp ? I'm asking this because i want to install the latest version of oracle database 11g and i need to install Linux or Windows to run the server.
Quite a lot of people are running Linux on their Intel-Macs (I am not one of them...).
Here's a how-to for Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Intel_iMac
There is no version of Oracle 11g for macosx atm.
Time to complain(send a feedback to Oracle
Why people choose VMware and Parallels instead of using boot camp?
VMWare and Parallels have the advantage over BootCamp, that you can use them while still being in OSX, so that you can run Windows/Linux alongside OSX.
With BootCamp you have to restart your Mac each time you want to switch to/from Windows/Linux.
Please give some feedback.
Hope it helps
Greatfully,
Nuno
Regards
Stefan

Backup to TImeCapsule including Boot Camp partition

I used Boot Camp to install Windows 7 Professional on my new MacBook Air, and have now got Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac working OK with a Windows Virtual Machine. But I am reluctant to remove the Boot Camp partition. Now I have got TIme Capsule/Time Machine working OK for automatic backups - but the BootCamp/Windows stuff is not being backed up. Can anyone tell me how to include the Boot Camp partition and all my Windows-based work in the automatic backup 'of the entire machine' (the reason I bought a Time Capsule) to Time Capsule? It seems that only the MAC side of the machine is being backed up hourly by Time Machine. Can't find anything in Knowledge Base or Help about this. Thanks!

verycactus wrote:
I want to keep this discussion on MacBook Air not go to BootCamp topic because I need a wireless backup solution.
I'm suggesting you go there to find an app that will backup your BootCamp partition to a Time Capsule. I don't know if WinClone can do that, or if there are better options.
If I can partition my Mac using Boot Camp, is it possible to partition the Time Capsule
No. But you can create a +disk image+ on it, and back up the Windoze side to it, if you can find an app that will work. See the blue box in #Q3 of [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Capsule+ forum).
you sold me all the bits, what's the answer please?
You're not talking to Apple here. We're just ordinary users, like you, volunteering our time, with the rare exception of an Apple employee posting here on his/her own time (and identified by a silver Apple logo), and in the +Discussions Feedback+ forum, where the Hosts (identified by a purple Apple logo) will post about the Discussions themselves, not technical issues.
Click +Help & Terms of Use+ at the right of this page for details.
I'd email Support but there's no email Support offered and I can hardly phone USA from Australia trying to get an answer to this.
Click +Contact Us+ at the bottom of the page to find numbers in Australia.
Maybe a Genius in my local retail Apple store can help?
Possible. But they generally don't seem to have much training on Time Machine or Time Capsules.
Info on the whole question of backup & data protection is fairly thin in the Apple world - or am I looking in tihe wrong place or calling it the wrong thing? thanks
For information on 3rd-party utilities to use with BootCamp, try the Boot Camp forum. For information on Time Machine, try the +Snow Leopard > Time Machine+ forum. There are several *User Contributed Tips* at the top of that forum. For Time Capsule questions/issues, there's a +Time Capsule+ forum in the +Digital Life+ section.

Want to convert existing Parallels virtual disk to Boot Camp

I have an existing Parallels VM running on a virtual disk. I'd like to transfer that to a Boot Camp partition. Can this be done?
Most of the discussion here and elsewhere is about the reverse - importing a Boot Camp setup into Parallels, and/or setting up a new virtual machine using the Boot Camp partition. That's NOT what I want to do, though it may be what I end up doing, I guess.

I was only saying that whatever VMware and Parallels do to have one license for VM AND for Boot Camp "stretches" the EULA a bit.
+Please make sure that you do not violate the licensing agreement of your operating system and other installed software by virtualizing your system.+
People with Mac Pro definitely are running multiple VMs today.
As for if/how to convert:
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/go-virtual/
easily migrates a Windows-based computer to a virtual environment (P2V) and vice versa (V2P)
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/vm-professional/features.html
Supported Virtual Machines
Microsoft Virtual PC
VMware™ Workstation
VMware™ Fusion
Oracle VirtualBox 3
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/vm-professional/
I don't see Macs and Parallels being supported.
Windows 7 Virtual Hard Drives are also interesting and have some nice features. Like boot to a VHD.
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Dual-Boot-from-VHD-with-Windows-7-and-Windows-Seve r-2008-R2/
http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/01/17/windows-7-boot-from-vhd-first -impression-part-1.aspx

EPM Planning & Budgeting Partner Implementation Boot Camp Ready 2 Launch

The Oracle PartnerNetwork launched a new Implementation Boot Camp program at OOW 2008. Since then Oracle has made available to partners ~8 different Boot Camps and expect to have near 20 by the end of February 2009.
That said, we are close to finalizing the content for an EPM Planning & Budgeting Implementation Boot Camp, and I am interested to hear if there is any interest in this Boot Camp among this audience.
Goals / Objectives
The EPM Planning Bootcamp will provide implementation instruction on Oracle’s EPM System products Planning functionality. The bootcamp will be a fast-paced, five-day class, teaching students what they need to know in order to implement and manage EPM Planning applications. Goals for the bootcamp are described below.
The Planning bootcamp is designed to take consultants through all the steps needed in an implementation of Hyperion Planning. The class begins with an overview of Essbase, the foundation of Hyperion Planning. It provides a general overview of Planning and Planning terms, the architecture of all the Planning components, and how they are commonly used. The course goes over all the steps to create an application from scratch. This involves some prep work outside of Planning and leads to developing the application in both the Planning Windows and Web clients. Participants will modify existing dimensions and build out the hierarchies using the Web client.
Audience
This bootcamp is intended for prospective users and implementers of the Planning and Budgeting functionality of Oracle EPM or implementers that are currently familiar with the basics of EPM Planning and looking to strengthen their base of knowledge in the product.
Ideal participants are Oracle partners (SIs and resellers) with backgrounds in business information systems and a clientele of customers with ongoing or prospective EPM initiatives. Alternatively, partners with the background described above and an interest in evolving their practice to a similar profile are suitable participants.
EPM Planning & Budgeting Bootcamp
The bootcamp shows developers how to build out dimensions using Classic Planning and by using EPMA. It covers the mechanics and cover strategies for automating the build process such as interface tables. The reviews data loads using Load Rules to load the Planning database. The course focuses on tasks that end-users must perform during the planning cycle. It walks students through creating and modifying forms, working with forms to enter data, adding annotations, and the rest of the form features such as running business rules and managing task lists. It covers how to use the forms in the Smart View client and finishes up the end-user perspective by going through Workflow Management and the process of submitting a plan for review. The final section of the course covers Security and other administration topics such as automation and deployment.
Applied Planning Course Topics:
• Overview of Essbase & Planning
• Application Design Overview
• Essbase Spreadsheet Add-In & Smart View
• Load Rules for loading data
• Essbase Administration Services (EAS)
• Architecture
• Calculation Fundamentals
• Overview of Planning
• Setting up an Application
• EPMA – Enterprise Performance Management Architect
• Building Forms and Business Rules
• Smart View Client
• Workflow Management
• Security and Administration
Edited by: nkritiko on Nov 6, 2008 1:45 PM

Nick,
Can you let us have the schedule, location and duration of these Boot Camps?
Thanks

Vista Blue Screen after Successful Boot Camp installation (32 and 64 bit)

OK so there are a number of people with issues relating to the BSoD after a successful (or not) implemetation of Bot Camp and Windows XP and/or Vista. One of the identified problems relates to the NVIDIA GEforce 9600m GT display driver which crashes out AFTER windows performs its update routine.
Having removed and installed the partition (to ensure a clean install each time), the inescapable conclusion is that the NVIDIA driver is to blame for the crash dump, but it is one of the many MS updates that is the root cause of the failure. If you do a clean install of Vista 32 or 64 Ultimate and install the Boot Camp 2.1 (build 1256) and DO NOT allow updates, the system is not only stable, it runs like a train!
I have Contacted AppleCare about this (as my new MBP is only a few days old) and they have not even heard of the problems. NVIDIA have obviously got issues with something as the driver has been updated to a BETA on their web site, but this will not work on a Mac as it cannot seem to find the hardware to allow the update to complete.
If (like me) you have bought an MBP for support issues for both Mac and Windows users, this is a showstopper and one that is about to cause me to ask for my money back. So far, the nice shiny and new MBP is back in its box pending a 140 mile trip back to Exeter from whence it came.
SHARK!

Boot Camp was a response to public challenges at the time to see who could find how to install Windows on a Mac - which is totally okay thing.
Then you want Apple to do more than any normal PC vendor selling a laptop where people have to do things like deal with BIOS, drivers and all the things you have had to deal with, for Windows.
I'm not disagreeing, let alone arguing, I agree that hardware abstraction layer type stuff Apple would need to do. But I don't think Apple needs to do more than get Windows installed. Drivers, AV, and all the stuff that comes with Windows doesn't change. But it should not BSOD when you install something you are told you need.
I wouldn't be surprised though to see Windows 7 eventually support Apple hardware out of the box so to speak.
Cookie cutter answers are part of today's customer experience "level one" is no level at all, but a lot of times - and it takes a lot of work - to translate feedback and problems into "cook book" before you get to the troubleshooting (level 2 and above).
Which is why I read sites like MacIntouch; subscribe to MacFixit (tons of articles on a CD along with shareware). And books.
Nvidia has terrible drivers in OS X on the Mac Pro (workstation) while ATI has had very good drivers and OpenGL support.
I prefer to have more choice and freedom when it comes to drivers. As for engineering and how things get qualified (use to see even SCSI hard drives had to be qualified for both the OS; the controller to be used; driver version; firmware; etc).
What I see is the first shipped BIOS/EFI firmware on any device or system is not the one you want.
Back in the 70's I was introduced to "bleeding edge" but we would get premiere on-site support if we were willing to install, adopt, some new IBM service, software/hardware. And sometimes we were there on Sunday on holiday weekends.
One person just could NOT after doing everything under the sun, get Adobe CS4 to install on their new $5000 Mac Pro 2009. Got a new system, worked perfectly.
In 2008 Early Mac Pro, most all systems would freeze on wake from sleep. Took two months before an EFI update was issued that cured the problem. There is/was also a problem with "inrush current" and PSU.
I had Blue Screen with Vista. Repeatedly.
At first I thought it was a new MICROSOFT 4000 keyboard.
Later I wondered if it was my Apple OEM Nvida 7300GT (and some are failing but it worked in OS X) so I bought 2nd, a PC 8600GTS.
And pull 3rd party PCI Express controllers (FW800, SATA 1x, SATA 8x cards).
Came away and thought "oh, it was the 3rd party card" when that seemed to work.
Around the same time I had bought a new WD Caviar 750GB SATA drive.
It was that drive that would cause problems with Vista after the install.
I thought it was something in Microsoft Windows Update that was causing my personal ****, not my equipment. And MS for their drivers. Somebody else's.
And mind you, I would go through install half a dozen times, try installing Boot Camp before updates, after updates, not at all, add AV software.
I finally -- after a full year -- learned a lot (don't learn from things just working and I still say it has always been "Plug and Pray" PnP ) things work. I know the frustration and aggravation and the wish that things were different somehow.
The BSODs that I got were not from Apple Boot Camp. I even ran my system w/o Boot Camp for six months. And this time, with Win7, everything worked fine, wake, sleep, networking, no need for Apple drivers. At all.
I hang out on a forum where people build their own, X58 board, Intel Core i7, eVGA graphics. And how to get even DDR3 to work, and then how to get the most out of and push it to the extreme, then throttle back a notch.
The nice thing about that is you learn from it, like you do from racing and sports, to build a better mousetrap.
Nvidia is bleeding. Even as they and ATI want to stay on leading edge. Intel is contracting (even as they have their best cpu technology ever coming out) and costs that should go into R&D may be harder to "justify" or all the prototype programmers engineers and testing labs. Everything is more commoditized than ever.
Bottom line: I have Leopard 10.5.6. It has Boot Camp 2.1.2 version, later than the 2.1 download. And there has not been a single update posted online. But my original Leopard DVD 10.5.0 has the SAME contents packaged as 2.0 as were in the 1.4 Beta. I spend $129 for a new DVD to get the latest drivers. Make sense?? of course not.
Oh, and my Mac with 64-bit hardware, cpu, the EFI BIOS is 32-bit so no official support from Apple to install BC 2.1.2 or use Vista 64-bit. Snow Leopard will be 64-bit kernel, require and enforce 64-bit drivers. Should be interesting. Because technically, and logic, would say I don't have a true 64-bit BIOS environment.
Got an iMac? not supported with 64-bit. MacBook 2008 had 64-bit support, but not the "Late 2008" there you need MacBook Pro. And yet everyone wants to address more than 2GB (Apple EFI32 allows access to 3.3GB on some, 1.9GB on others, and in my Mac Pro? limited to 1.9GB memory in Windows.... so you know I don't want to run a Xeon workstation in Windows 32-bit.

Question for Apple: When do we get "Trackpad Click" in Boot Camp???

Parallels has it. VMWare Fusion has it. Why can't Boot Camp do 'trackpad click'???
I'm buggered if I can work out what was actually UPGRADED in BC 2.0 -- seems to work exactly the same as the beta versions.

Question for Apple
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html/
And FWIW, I hate trackpad click. Whenever I try to help someone on a laptop which has it on by default, I end up clicking on everything when I'm only trying to move the mouse pointer. So I'm ecstatic that Apple is smart enough to turn it off by default. But I agree that people who have been trained to use this horrible feature ought to have it as an option. But I'm hoping Apple provides the option of focus-follows-mouse for Mac OS X first.

Boot Camp "supplements" (??)

Are there big advantages (or disadvantages!?) to installing "Parallels"/"Fusion" type of programs?

Fristly, we aren't mind readers.
There are those that run games and apps that demand all the system resources.
Oracle VirtualBox is free VM.
Look up all of these on Wikipedia and check the reviews and benchmark comparisons.
Fusion and Parallels allow using Windows both natively and in a VM.
Boot Camp is free but you partition your hard drive, and some Macs (helps to list yours btw) need Apple drivers which can be iffy. VMs are more forgiving and use their own.
Running both Mac and Windows requires more resources obviously to have them sharing RAM, cpu cycles.
Of course there are the pros and cons. Goes without saying.
Download all three VMs and try them out or read their manual and check each's web forums.

Boot Camp version?

Hi All,
How can I find out details of the version of BootCamp I running from within Windows Vista....? I want to find out version and whether it's 64 bit or 32 bit...?
Thanks

1) Looks like you have the 32-bit version installed since Boot Camp is in the (x86) folder.
2) I believe you need 10.5 of the Mac OS for the 64-bit version of Boot Camp to be supported.
3) I further believe you must install the 64-bit version of Boot Camp from the 10.5 install disk. I also think that after you install the 64-bit version of Boot Camp with the 10.5 disk that you will then be able to apply the 2.1 update.
4) I'm something of a "start from a known state" troubleshooter based on my training as a support engineer in the 80's (clean installs of new OS versions etc...). I'm wondering if you installed the 32-bit version back when Boot Camp was in beta and have simply done various upgrades ever since? If so, you'll need someone else here to help that has a deep level of understanding on what to do next! Be sure to provide exact software versions when asking for help to speed up the process.
5) You can determine file versions and product codes by looking at the properties of a file in Windows (right click with your mouse to see options).

Cannot install windows 8.1 on imac 5k - apple support says "Correct, that machine can't install windows" Boot camp fail

I have a brand new imac 5k, with 4ghz i7, 295x GPU, 3.1TB fusion drive. Bought the machine so I could dual boot - I need windows for VR Dev work.
I've spent the last week and a half on tech support calls with Apple Senior Tech agents, and Microsoft agents as well, and today have been told that indeed this machine cannot run windows 8.1. Apparently Apple engineering knows about the issue, but says the problem is microsoft's. Ugh.
The latest iteration of the issue comes when installing 8.1 onto an external thunderbolt SSD (without even using boot camp) - I go through the EFI installer, convert the drive to GPT, format it as ntfs, but when I select the partition to install onto, the installer says it can't find the partition it just created. Smuh?
I've also tried the install through boot camp. This installation actually worked twice, but the install was unstable. After booting back into osX, then returning to Windows, the windows install went corrupt and couldn't be repaired. Subsequent attempts to install windows yielded a flurry of different errors, including "windows doesn't support GPT in this mode" or "the disk is locked, please unlock the disk" or "MBR must be converted to GPT" (where once I converted to GPT, the drive could no longer be found, despite the operation completing successfully.)
At any rate, it's a huge mess. I'd happily return the machine for a different config, but the company I bought it from will only swap it for a similar model -- so I've spent a pile on a machine that does not function as advertised; apple says "too bad, talk to Microsoft." Microsoft says "too bad, we've never seen this, this is an apple issue."
Has anyone out there gotten windows up and running on an iMac5k with fusion drive? If so, did you have to go through a crazy maze to make it work?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
MC

Michael Conelly wrote:
After much gnashing of teeth, and a half dozen support calls, I'd all but given up. I finally seem to have solved this though - sort of - by installing windows 8.1 on boot camp on an older iMac, then cloning the bootcamp disk to an external thunderbolt drive via Winclone. That worked seamlessly, sticking to winclone's instructions, and I can boot via EFI to Windows 8.1 on the new iMac. So far so good.
I usually install W8.1 via EFI by using DU and a Free Space partition. The 3TB Fusion is first split into the underlying SSD/HDD physicals. OSX and Windows OSes are installed on SSD via EFI (no BCA). The OSX part and half the HDD are then used to create a new CS volume. The other HDD half becomes NTFS for non-Windows OS files. The Hybrid MBR method is completely unsatisfactory with the 3TB Fusion drive.
How is the TB/Winclone image for performance of the OS (since pagefile.sys is also on the TB)?

Apple Mini-DVI to VGA Adapter Problems in Boot Camp / Windows

I currently run Windows XP SP2 on my MacBook and recently purchased the Mini-DVI to VGA adapter so I could hook up the MacBook to an external projector, monitor, or TV to display what's on my Windows screen on the external device. However, when I connect it to any external device, it just goes nuts and sporadically continues to make the hardware connect and hardware disconnect sounds and doesn't allow for external output of the screen. Any suggestions...? Thanks!
Marc

I think I solved this problem.
It was in issue for me. My second monitor would only display the Windows XP screen when it was loading, then it would black out. I couldn't even move my mouse arrow to the other side. Then I fixed it, here's how (running Windows XP SP3):
1. Start > Control Panel > Appearance and Themes
2. Display
3. Go to tab "settings"
4. Double click the blue image with the "2" inside it. This is the second monitor, adjacent to your first, or primary, monitor. The blue box may be a desaturated, greyish blue, meaning that the monitor is disabled. Click it and it a box will pop up asking if you want to enable the monitor. Click OK, and then like magic, your monitor is resurected in it's Windows Glory! From there, adjust the resolution, and it should work perfectly.
This isn't a Boot Camp compatability issue, it's just a problem with the lack of familiarity that users of OS X have with using XP.
Have a nice day!
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DVI To Video Adapter on XP using Boot Camp

I bought a DVI To Video Adapter for my MacBook pro. Though is works fine on the Mac OsX, when I tried to use it on Windows XP (using Boot Camp) all I got was a black-flickering image on my TV. Anyone… anything…? Thanx
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I'm having the same problem.
It's gotta be some driver problem on the XP side.
I don't know if it's something created by boot camp when it creates drivers for the Mac.
The help i've found for the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 doesn't describe the options and dialogs I'm working with very accurately.
Called Apple-- they can't support the issue. Turned me back to searching on my own. Boot Camp message boards/ ATI... bummer.
Someone needs to "Hero" us out.

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