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crossmr
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So this is pretty sweet... windows boot loader replaced grub. Which means I'm going to have to fight with that... and on top of that the Vista install messed up and it won't load from the boot menu. Complaing winload.exe is bad or some crap like that.
What do I need to do to go about reinstating Grub as my default bootloader and adding Vista to it?
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crossmr
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| Posted: Fri, 16th Jun 2006 00:44 Post subject: |
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Well I got grub fixed and such. I have weird booting now. Grub for either linux or windows, then when I choose windows the windows boot menu comes up so I can pick xp or vista.
So far my initial impressions:
Its shiny, UI is nice.
its very idiot proof so that you have to authorize everything. Unless you blindly click on every okay box things will have a hard time getting into your system as it stands.
Some weirdness with my TV Tuner. The device manager went ahead and got the appropriate drivers for it off Windows Update. Yet when I tried to use Media Center to watch TV, it claimed I didn't have a tuner installed. I haven't found a way around that yet. I guess I'll have to install Intervideo to watch it, but I hate that application.
IE7 - its okay. I hate that when you make a new tab, it doesn't default your cursor to the address bar like mozilla/firefox does. You have to move your mouse and click it to start typing an address thats a bit stupid.
I only spent like 45 minutes in it total, didn't do much..played that ink ball game..that was kind of fun.
intel ultra 7 265k, 64gb ram, 3070
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crossmr
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Jun 2006 23:10 Post subject: |
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So I ran into a problem on my laptop today. I freed up 17.6GB of space to install Vista as a dual boot, and it claims it can't find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation. The freespace has been turned into a partition and formatted, yet it still claims that.
According to the Vista site there are no restrictions on hard drive size, so I'm not sure what the problem is here.
intel ultra 7 265k, 64gb ram, 3070
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kumkss
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Cheez-It
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Jun 2006 01:34 Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: | So I ran into a problem on my laptop today. I freed up 17.6GB of space to install Vista as a dual boot, and it claims it can't find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation. The freespace has been turned into a partition and formatted, yet it still claims that.
According to the Vista site there are no restrictions on hard drive size, so I'm not sure what the problem is here. |
I think your going to want to create a 20 gig partition, seem to remember hearing that somewhere...
Also: be sure it is NTFS... |
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crossmr
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Jun 2006 20:27 Post subject: |
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| Cheez-It wrote: |
I think your going to want to create a 20 gig partition, seem to remember hearing that somewhere...
Also: be sure it is NTFS... |
You read wrong, and it was NTFS as the windows installer did the formatting. The problem was the partition needed to be set active. Absolute garbage.
Its installed now.
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crossmr
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Jun 2006 23:11 Post subject: |
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Anyone tried any virtual CD software for Vista? I've got some of those server apps from the office 2007 beta and I just don't feel like burning them.
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