The Really Long Thread

[Henyman]

i like cake and waffles.

 

[Vanquished]

Syrup scares me

 

[bobsalot]

i like badgers.

 

[madmatt]

Stop with the nonsense. Talk about something relevant.

 

[rushm001]

Damn Vista signup if screwed! :s

 

[omg its nlm]

New York Sucks

 

[SPeedY_B]

Stop with the nonsense. Talk about something relevant.

Seconded. This thread may end up locked again, which is a shame.

 

[Henyman]

my vista download is @ 85% wooooooooooooo

only problem is i have no dvd burner to burn it to dvd with on laptop

 

[SPeedY_B]

Heh, you fool. You got a burner in the house anywhere? (now that your bro's PC is ... ehm ... missing )

 

[kcnychief]

my vista download is @ 85% wooooooooooooo

only problem is i have no dvd burner to burn it to dvd with on laptop

What is the ETA on the DVD you ordered?

 

[Henyman]

not a dvd burner. master plan is to extract it to an external harddrive, then boot from that harddrive..........well thats the best i can come up with

 

[kcnychief]

You may loose boot functionality while doing that, but maybe not.

 

[NetRyder]

not a dvd burner. master plan is to extract it to an external harddrive, then boot from that harddrive..........well thats the best i can come up with

You could also try mounting the ISO using Daemon Tools and starting the installer from within XP. I used that method sometime last year with one of the early builds. It copied all the files necessary for setup before rebooting the system, so it worked fine. I haven't tried this with any of the latest builds though.

 

[kcnychief]

Also of note, starting with Beta 2 (don't think you could before), the option is there to do an upgrade from XP to Vista.

 

[Henyman]

that is the plan, extract it to external harddrive. then boot from that external harddrive + install on internal harddrive. should work fine in my mind.

 

[Grandmaster]

I'm going to install it on an external hd. I know it'll be slow as ****, but I'm too lazy to wipe XP off my HD only to put it back a couple days later.

 

[Henyman]

i have a spare 30Gb laptop drive from when i slapped a 80Gb in here for more pr0n storage, plan to install in on there tomorrow........or tonight maybee

 

[NetRyder]

I'm going to install it on an external hd. I know it'll be slow as ****, but I'm too lazy to wipe XP off my HD only to put it back a couple days later.

I'm not sure if that's going to work. Try it out, but I don't think it can boot off an external drive connected via USB.

There are a couple of other options. You could image your existing XP setup, so restoring it will only take about 10 minutes. Or re-partition the drive and allocate some free space for Vista so you can dual boot, assuming you have enough space.

 

[kcnychief]

Or use Virtual Server R2, it's free and you don't have to worry about anything

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6DBA2278-B022-4F56-AF96-7B95975DB13B&displaylang=en&hash=T8CTX4G

 

[NetRyder]

Or use Virtual Server R2, it's free and you don't have to worry about anything

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6DBA2278-B022-4F56-AF96-7B95975DB13B&displaylang=en&hash=T8CTX4G

But then you don't get Glass even on machines that have the hardware to support it.