Microsoft Vista

VINNIEB

Hi, anyone tried to install Vista? I am having some probs with this
mabey one of you guys can help.
:mad:

aidan_walsh

Well, given that its not publicly available, and you don't type like an MVP, I'm guessing this is going to be closed pretty soon.

VINNIEB

Thanks Aidan for your interest,
but i think your are way off as to where i got
my copy of vista, think before u post,my copy of
Vista is from microsoft(friend works for) not downloaded.

stevenmu

What problems are you having with it ?

VINNIEB

O.K. thanks for the reply, here goes,
got the Longhorn iso on dvd, then i burnt the iso to
a dvd, I have a spare fairly good desktop with 60gig hd, 1 gig ram, 2ghz and tried to boot from dvd, i got the boot from cd then this. Non-Emulation Booting, thats it really. I cant get my mate in MS till tomorrow but I would have loved to try this tonight.

zuma

Which version is it.....64bit software on a 32bit CPU problem mabye?

It sounds like your copy of Vista was obtained by "odd" means to say the least....which build is it anyway???

jabaroon

zuma wrote:

Which version is it.....64bit software on a 32bit CPU problem mabye?

It sounds like your copy of Vista was obtained by "odd" means to say the least....which build is it anyway???

Whats the build number

WexCan

VINNIEB wrote:

O.K. thanks for the reply, here goes,
got the Longhorn iso on dvd, then i burnt the iso to
a dvd, I have a spare fairly good desktop with 60gig hd, 1 gig ram, 2ghz and tried to boot from dvd, i got the boot from cd then this. Non-Emulation Booting, thats it really. I cant get my mate in MS till tomorrow but I would have loved to try this tonight.

You got the Longhorn ISO on DVD and burnt it to a DVD? Anyone else a bit lost here?

jesus_thats_gre

WexCan wrote:

You got the Longhorn ISO on DVD and burnt it to a DVD? Anyone else a bit lost here?

Haha thinking that myself..

At that, who cares if he downloaded the beta ffs!!

WexCan

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

Haha thinking that myself..

At that, who cares if he downloaded the beta ffs!!

Ah well, 'tis well for some, though I'm sure there's some Microsoft employees copying the odd DVD here and there.

SirLemonhead

They have made a recent beta release available to various microsoft online communities. I entered for it myself but wasn't lucky.

He probably got a DVD with an iso file on it?

Check the "installation woes" section in the forum at www.winvistasecrets.com to see if anyone else has had this problem.

VINNIEB

Hi, meeting tonight with my MS mate,called him earlier, he is going to install it for me.
If anyone is still interested i will post how it goes.
Also i am not going to copy this for anyone else, I only like to try before i buy.

zuma

VINNIEB wrote:

Hi, meeting tonight with my MS mate,called him earlier, he is going to install it for me.
If anyone is still interested i will post how it goes.
Also i am not going to copy this for anyone else, I only like to try before i buy.

You'll be waiting MANY months before you can actually buy it.

WexCan

zuma wrote:

You'll be waiting MANY months before you can actually buy it.

And when it comes out it'll probably be crappier than the Beta. Though everyone seems to like the Beta.

VINNIEB

VINNIEB wrote:

Hi, meeting tonight with my MS mate,called him earlier, he is going to install it for me.
If anyone is still interested i will post how it goes.
Also i am not going to copy this for anyone else, I only like to try before i buy.

I know that, I use the following OS systems, XP pro, XP home, Xp pro (corporate) (fckgw-rhqq2-ect), Win 98se, Red Hat Enterprise all on two desktops and a laptop. I just want know whats new.

optiplexgx270

Getting the ISO image from a dvd isnt that unusual. In work here i have a dual layer dvd with iso's of 98/2000/200 server/xp home/xp pro/2003 server to name a few. Actually i think we got the disc you are talking about.

VINNIEB

Finally sat down and sorted out the problem, simple as it was, the ISO was on a data disk, so i used nero to burn the iso.
Installation was a doddle, only a few steps eg, choose HD Partition, enter licence key and thats it, went to work and when i came home Vista was installed without any problems, only sound card was not recoginised, but thats not the end of the world.

I only have spent an hour using it, but i`ve found the only real difference is a few extra features, and a new front end, found it to be very LINUX like.

I will post more info when time permits.