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

["Mal Lansell" <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For me it made sense because I've been writing an xPL plugin for
MCE, and I want to see whether it works with Vista too.  But I
agree - unless you have a good reason, it's a crazy thing to do!

Mal (who now has to reinstall MCE because of that domain issue I
discovered the hard way!)



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
>
> 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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