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Title: Aaaargh!
Post by: Gaffers on 18 March 2010, 08:38:51

Spent most of last night tearing the house to bits!

The RC of Windows 7 expired recently so I decided to rebuild the computer with a dual boot of Debian and Vista.  I have an old copy of XP MCE which I was going to use as a media server and setup along with the PS3 a rather tidy home media system.

Two problems:

I have the XP disks but cant find the case with the code....

I have the code for Vista but no disk!  >:(

Poooo out of luck it seems.  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Aaaargh!
Post by: The Red Baron on 18 March 2010, 08:47:09

that is just so annoying isnt it.

Title: Re: Aaaargh!
Post by: Kevin Wood on 18 March 2010, 09:36:36

Sod the dual boot malarkey and just install Debian. Can't see a problem with that. ;)

Kevin

Title: Re: Aaaargh!
Post by: Gaffers on 18 March 2010, 09:39:39

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Sod the dual boot malarkey and just install Debian. Can't see a problem with that. ;)

Kevin

I would love to.  Only 2 problems though:

- My daily COD4 fix
- The technophobe wife

Title: Re: Aaaargh!
Post by: Gaffers on 18 March 2010, 10:08:41

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Sod the dual boot malarkey and just install Debian. Can't see a problem with that. ;)

Kevin

I would love to.  Only 2 problems though:

- My daily COD4 fix - can be sorted using wine
- The technophobe wife - ban her from the desktop and limit her to her lappy

Having a bit of moment there.....  ;D :y

Title: Re: Aaaargh!
Post by: Kevin Wood on 18 March 2010, 10:13:37

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Sod the dual boot malarkey and just install Debian. Can't see a problem with that. ;)

Kevin

I would love to.  Only 2 problems though:

- My daily COD4 fix - can be sorted using wine
- The technophobe wife - ban her from the desktop and limit her to her lappy

Having a bit of moment there.....  ;D :y

There. That's more like it. :y

.. although wine might struggle a bit. Not that I've used it for a while. Suck it and see.

Kevin

Title: Re: Aaaargh!
Post by: Gaffers on 19 March 2010, 09:00:14

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Sod the dual boot malarkey and just install Debian. Can't see a problem with that. ;)

Kevin

I would love to.  Only 2 problems though:

- My daily COD4 fix - can be sorted using wine
- The technophobe wife - ban her from the desktop and limit her to her lappy

Having a bit of moment there.....  ;D :y

There. That's more like it. :y

.. although wine might struggle a bit. Not that I've used it for a while. Suck it and see.

Kevin

Apparently it works so time will tell.  Trying to sort out my graphics setup right now.  System starts with no errors but as soon as I get the login prompt all viseo output is lost, until I shut down....wierd  :(