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Okay then, this is just an outline of the installation and suchlike.

I installed on a partition, it worked, automatically detected my xp partition, and allows me to boot into both no problems.

Installation took an hour, only needing the user there for the first 5 minutes or so - Personally i feel this is acceptable, will explain my reasoning down there a bit


Basic overview of the install:

Does the usual stuff, but prettier, gets all info needed at the start
Takes about 30 minutes to copy stuff from the dvd at this point, followed by another 15 or so decompressing
At this point it does the installing and updating bit - nearly instant on my system
Coupla restarts
Suddenly, Fista.

Now, i'm sure a lot of you are thinking that an hour-ish windows install is very long. It Is.

However, remember that Fista won't be out for another year or so, at which point it's likely to be on HD-DVD, and on faster machines.

While it might take a while to install, it's really, really stupid to complain because you're effectively installing a new, unoptimised OS onto year-old hardware.


More to follow

Part 2: Drivers



ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGH!



Nvidia graphics driver = bsod
Audigy 2 driver = borked
other stuff = mainly ok (including 2 other soundcards and MS graphics drivers)

LOL

Dis?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_88.61.html

Dat.


There's one from late last year which is better apparently.


edit: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=32 possibly

Installation photos (excuse blurryness, was drunk)

http://flickr.com/photos/kitteny_berk/s ... 161295001/


Will get an assload of in-use screenies now


edit: also, for now i'd rate Fista at competent windows monkeys only, if the command prompt scares you, Fista is not for you.

However, it is pretty much a fine desktop OS out of the box, driver support is just shitty as yet (exactly the same as happened with 2k3 at beta 2 stage)

Useful stuff driver wise

bcdedit -set {current} NOINTEGRITYCHECKS on (disables signed only drivers)

pnputil.exe -a / -e

woot!

Desktop screenshots gotiem

http://flickr.com/photos/kitteny_berk/s ... 161569813/

looks cool

i was especially impressed with the taskbar previews.


i read some where that it uses the same styles system as XP, so you can use styles you have already, is this true?

/me waits for torrent to finnish

true

http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/05/20 ... -for-free/

edit: haha, misread entirely, and i suspect so.