Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. If you previously registered for the Windows Vista Beta 2 Customer Preview Program 2 and received a product key (PID), that key will work for the Windows Vista RC1 release as well. You need not re-register. Update: A review of the RC1 version say that Vista is not ready.
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Oh, and who are these sources? whiney little 15 year olds with their 945G equiped machines from the $99 shop, and whining that it won't fly on their machine.
So far, all I've heard so far is, "damn this is better than Beta 2" to "this is what Windows XP should have been" to "its about f*cking time they did something like this; fixed the problem!"
How about you actually USING it before craping on about issues you know nothing about.
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I wouldn't do that. Trying to install Vista in a separate partition of your HD, or indeed even on another HD is quite likely to hose one's existing Linux installation.
Just disconnect the first HD and run on the one with vista, thats what I did and nothing was damaged.
This isn't rocket science guys!
Member since:2005-12-02
"I wouldn't do that. Trying to install Vista in a separate partition of your HD, or indeed even on another HD is quite likely to hose one's existing Linux installation."
Actually it did not hose anything on my system. The only thing it WILL do is to wipe the MBR and put it's own in there. Just make sure you have a boot disk for whichever OS you are using to manage the MBR so you can restore the MBR. On my system there was no need, as the MS Boot Manager set itself up to launch XP and Vista. It is nice that you can finally specify exactly where to install windows.
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2005-10-17
partitions? another HD?