Vista Sigh
I just installed Windows Vista Business on my laptop. I’d never advocate being an early adopter at the enterprise level, but I’m enough of a geek that I really wanted to get my hands on the latest and greatest. Having played with preview releases, I was certainly impressed by the polish, appearance, and apparent security.
Besides, since my experience with 64-bit Windows had been less than stellar and my wireless drivers had just crapped out on my latest Linux install (Fedora Core), I figured now was the time to move. We also have several new machines coming in that will be running XP, but are eligible for upgrade, so I wanted to start evaluating in our environment now.
So I broke out the disks (for some reason, the vendor sent me 4 CD instead of a DVD - UGH) and got ready to boot from the CD. I had Ed Bott’s two articles on Vista installations (”Vista Hands On #2: A no-fuss, nondestructive clean install” and Vista Hands On #4: Clean install with an upgrade key) up on another computer in two Firefox tabs.
I had backed up all of my files and I was ready. Irritated with the whole “no clean install from an upgrade disk” issue, but ready nonetheless. So I tried to boot from the CD. And couldn’t. Apparently there was some BIOS issue with certain motherboards and Vista install media. Of course there was.
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