[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1645, Issue 1

[David Shorthouse]

Not sure if this is my registered email address but you used to be able to point the upgrade disc to itself  
This would allow the install sounds like upgrade version though..

Dave

Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>Its not really an answer as I don't use Windows 8, so cant help there too
>much .
>
>But, have you considered installing Linux as your primary os, then
>(assuming you have enough ram), using VirtualBox to install Windows 8 on
>top on your Linux? With Virtualbox you can take whole disk snapshots of the
>virtual machine, so you can for example get it set up and before you make a
>major change on your virtualised Windows system, you can snapshot it
>beforehand, that way its simply to just revert a whole OS install/upgrade
>if required. The snaphot is just a large file in the linux filesystem, so
>the snapshots are entirely safe.
>
>There are other ways to do this - I use KVM, using virt-manager which has
>better performance but doesnt have the 3D capabilities that VirtualBox has.
>
>Otherwise you could use Ghost or Clonezilla to make an image of the disk
>and then just copy it to another disk. As long as the disk you are
>transferring it to is bigger than the original disk it works fine.
>
>
>Julian
>
>
>
>On 13 November 2013 23:48, Sean Parry <sean at seanparry.free-online.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Has anyone got any ideas on this?
>>
>> I just built a new Windows 8 system today. It came up and ran like a
>> dream. However it will not load windows 8 onto the new hard drive. Without
>> having an earlier copy of windows on the drive. So it looks as if I might
>> end up having to buy a new copy of windows XP, just to over right it, with
>> Windows 8 in order to get it to load!
>>
>> Sean
>> On 13.11.2013 12:00, herefordshire-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
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>>> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:02:18 +0000
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>>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
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>>> GIMP is glorious and buckshee, but judging from the online forums, finding
>>> that it won't write, won't draw and won't paint for no obvious reason is a
>>> fairly common occurrence. Sometimes it has something to do with its
>>> multitude of layers and the solution appears to lie in selecting  the
>>> right
>>> layer, but my favourite solution to the not writing, not painting, not
>>> drawing problem is to choose 'All' from the 'Select' menu. So often it
>>> works, I've no idea why.
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>>> Steve Horsfield
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>>
>> I just built a new windows 8 system today. It came up and ran like a
>> dream. However it will not load windows 8 onto the new hard drive. Without
>> having an earlier copy of windows on the drive. So I it looks as if I might
>> have to buy a new copy of windows XP, just to over right it, with Windows 8
>> in order to get it to load!
>>
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