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March 9, 2005
Take That! WinXPpro Installer
I do almost everything in Linux. There are only three reasons that I keep any Microsoft Windows around at all:
- Testing
- Microsoft Money (I just do not like the existing offerings available for Linux)
- Games
There are some games that I can not get to run under Linux that I love to play. The most problematic of these is Homeworld (I have not tried Homeworld2 yet). The easiest to get running under Linux are all of my games from Blizzard Entertainment. In most cases, they actually run better (faster, smother) under Linux (using wine) then they do under Windows!
Last night, I finally got WindowsXP Professional installed.
When I got the new notebook, I tried to install WindowsXP Professional on it first. It came with XP Home Edition, which I categorically refuse to install on anything I own. I had a copy of XP Pro that I was not using on any other system, so I tried that.
Booting from the Windoews XP Professional (with SP1) CD, I saw the "Setup is examining your hardware" message and then just a blank, black screen and nothing ever happened. I gave up and just installed Fedora Core 3 on here, leaving the last 20GB of the hard drive to install Windows on later.
It was a very simple trick to get the installer to run. First, I installed a copy of Windows2000 Professional (that is also not in use on any of my systems at the moment, but is earmarked for one) first. When I logged in for the first time, I immediately inserted my WindowsXP Pro CD and when the autorun window came up, I told it to "Upgrade" my Windows2000 system. 50 minutes later, I was running WindowsXP Professional on the notebook.
There was one small problem getting GRUB fixed up, but I will make a seperate entry about that.
Posted by lamontp at March 9, 2005 7:50 PM
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