I recently downloaded TinyXP and made my own version of stripped down XP. Don't worry, don't get the pitchforks and the torches yet, it still required a product key. Now, TinyXP works in VMware Fusion and my own version failed miserblely. Now, I went to TinyXP into Boot Camp and after installing everything, the mini reboots and asks me to 'Press any key to boot'. Now, when I try to press any key, it doesn't respond. I am stuck in a loop. How do I bypass this screen?

Is it also possible to convert VMware Fusion images to Boot Camp ones?

You can try safe boot by pressing f8 during start up.
You usually convert a bootcamp partition to run on fusion. Havent tried the other way

Instead of starting a new subject for my own problem here.... I've stuck vista on my Macbook and it's come to installing the drivers from the Leopard disk.

My problem is this - it's trying to install the following tools and says I may not have sufficient privileges to start these system services:

Key Agent
Mac Hal

I'm pretty sure that these are the tools that let you change startup disk when you are stuck in windoze. So now I'm stuck in vista.... HELP!!!!!

How do I get out of this hell?

Have you tried restarting while holding down the "option" key?

Should give the option of which OS to start up in

Cheers for that one... I restarted with the OS disk in and used startup disk selection to free me from M$.

So that's one major part fixed... next up - how do I get those files installed?

To the orginal poster: it sounds like the TinyXP has stripped out the USB components or something that is required to allow interaction from the machine, this was a problem on a friends MBP once as he could not use his keyboard to login