RE: [OT] Dual Boot O/S & Vista Beta

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It does beg the question though ... Why bother installing Vista Beta?

Vista Beta is slow, clunky, bug riddled (I found several very basic and
repeatable bugs that really shouldn't have still been there within an
evening) and hugely punishing on hardware (2.53GHz P4 with 1Gb RAM wasn't
up
to the job of running even the OS at a speed that was acceptable).

It wants a graphics card with 128Mb RAM just as a *MINIMUM* to run that new
front end, much of the software that I use day-to-day doesn't run on it yet
and driver support for it is poor still too (no drivers for 3Com 905
network
cards for example which are a very widely used and very reliable card).

Unless you need to be running Vista for "work purposes" then I
would
question whether it is even worthwhile bothering at this stage - yes, I
know
it would be nice to have a play but much better to wait until a release
candidate comes out rather than a Beta.

Phil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mal Lansell
> Sent: 30 June 2006 23:54
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Dual Boot O/S & Vista Beta
>
> All you need to do is to install it to a different drive
> partition than the one where XP is installed.  You get asked
> where to install, so it's pretty easy.  You end up with a
> choice of OSs at boot time, with Vista as the default.
>
> One major thing to note - if you are on a domain you MUST
> specify a different computer name for the Vista install.  If
> you use the same name as for XP, you will end up locked out
> of the domain when you boot into XP.
>
> Mal
>
>
>
> darren_karp2001 wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need some tech advice regarding dual booting my PC.
> >
> > I have a new HD coming today and intend to install Windows
> Vista Beta
> > on it. However, I don't want to mess around with my main XP
> boot drive.
> >
> > Is there a way I can configure the system so I get to
> select which OS
> > (and therefore which physical HD) gets booted up on start up?
> >
> > What I intend doing is installing the new 250GB HD and
> create a 50GB
> > NTFS partition for vista.
> >
> > Any advice really appreciated.
> > Darren
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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