CHRISTOPHJPETERChristoph Peter

 When I first heard about bootcamp I thought why would I ever want windows on my mac if Mac OS X is so much better but after I found out that the Mac Version of C&3 is not avaliable in Austria there was no other way than infesting my mac book pro with the evil. I thought it would be really easy, like Steve said, and followed the steps in the bootcamp assistant. I encountered pretty much every problem you can possibly have when installing bootcamp so here is what I did to finally make it work. 

•  Start the bootcamp Assistant. When prompted to create A partition you could get this Error ( german only): 

Ihre Festplatte kann nicht partitioniert werden, weil einige Daten nicht verschoben werden können.Legen Sie eine Sicherung der Festplatte an und formatieren Sie sie mit dem Festplatten-Dienstprogramm als Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Einzelvolume. Stellen Sie anschließend die Informationen von der Sicherung wieder her und starten Sie den Boot Camp Assistenten erneut.

•  In order to solve this Problem you have to boot the Mac from your OS Disc and start the Disc Utility. Select Repair Volume and wait till its done. After completion restart your Mac and you should be good to go. Launch the Bootcamp Assistant again and follow the procedure, it should work now. 
• Your next step depends on the Windows XP SP2 CD you have. There are some that are capable of Formatting a predefined partition(BOOTCAMP) and some that can’t. I had and Educational License from my University, which was not able to perform the task. So the Setup crashed on my serveral times till I figured this out. In order for Bootcamp to work you somehow need to reformat the partition named Bootcamp which has been created by the Assistant.
• go to www.freedos.org, download the full CD ISO, burn the Image to a CD using the Disk Utility. Boot the Mac from that CD by restarting and holding down the "C" key. Then select option 5 to run freedos from the cd.

format the partion by typing "format c:" into the dos console

•  Now you are already on the save side. Restart the Mac and run Bootcamp again, install Windwos and you should be fine.

When putting together this post I found a really good German HowTo on this problem.