Tried Longhorn yet?

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Tried Longhorn yet?

Post by InactiveX »

Has anyone played around with pre-release Windows Longhorn? I'm wondering what it's like.

I downloaded the PDC beta but couldn't get it to install. It complained about a missing file or something. :(
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Yeah, but I couldn't get it to load. I don't think it likes my onboard Promise FastTrak.

I'll try again once I burn all these ISO :twisted:

The pics of longhorn look good though.
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Post by 24seven »

My brother tried it, and didnt like it... I ant had a chance yet as I havent got a hardrive free to put it on. When I get a new drive I will have a play then.

We downloaded the Longhorn_4051_PDC_WINBETA.iso

Then I had to add some boot information into the ISO using UltraISO

Then change some other files in the iso, so that you have a key that works.

Then install and do some more stuff, which im not sure on yet, having not installed it yet.
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I've played with it in VMWare. It's very much a pre-alpha build, very slow, very sluggish, very prone to die.
At the moment it's basically XP with a new explorer and the beginging of WinFS.
You definitely won't be running it on a BP6 methinks, certainly at the moment you wouldn't want less than a gig of RAM for it.
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Post by 24seven »

I've played with it in VMWare.
I think I might do that... forgot about vmware!
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I wouldn't try it with less than 2GB of RAM in your system - 1GB for the VM and one for the PC.
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Post by Derek »

VM! No wonder Longhorn wasn't running correctly :P
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