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Finished: Step 2 of 3!
May. 14th, 2008 02:41 amgot xp pro installed; kinda wtfed at the WGA but just googled it and it went away for the time being (time will tell!)
anyways, the problems I was having before getting it installed of course was that the cd was bad (not the harddrive, as I had thought! though I still s uspect that the hard drive is on its way to failing slowly but surely) luckily osx has a built in burn-a-disk image feature (disk utility, johnnex!) so after the FOUR HOURS it took to redownload the sp2 image (slipstreamed, anybody?) from the freaking site and extract the package, holy crap it seriously took an hour yesterday) I quickly ran through the second part of the setup. Luckily I didn't have to do the first part again! I thought it'd complain and say it was failed up, but apparently not. It was all just the cd.
It's sooooooooo weird though because the xp disk partition is H:
it freaked me out really badly so I renamed it to Hache Colon Slash à la my Cee Colon Slash on the MBP. (H:\ wasn't nearly as bad a shock as \users\rubahness\')
so now I have to dig back into the realm of xubuntu (everyone says to install xp first because it murders your master boot record) but it still got the dignity of being the first os installed!
I need to reinstall all my windows critical programs now I guess xD I got firefox, and utorrent and the driver for my wireless dongle, but I think PSP will be another one (or the GIMP if it does PSP files nowadays).
I'm so close to just restoring all the files I backed up to their original positions, but I have to wait and make my third (fourth?) partition so that they will be accessable from EVERYWHERE.
anyways, the problems I was having before getting it installed of course was that the cd was bad (not the harddrive, as I had thought! though I still s uspect that the hard drive is on its way to failing slowly but surely) luckily osx has a built in burn-a-disk image feature (disk utility, johnnex!) so after the FOUR HOURS it took to redownload the sp2 image (slipstreamed, anybody?) from the freaking site and extract the package, holy crap it seriously took an hour yesterday) I quickly ran through the second part of the setup. Luckily I didn't have to do the first part again! I thought it'd complain and say it was failed up, but apparently not. It was all just the cd.
It's sooooooooo weird though because the xp disk partition is H:
it freaked me out really badly so I renamed it to Hache Colon Slash à la my Cee Colon Slash on the MBP. (H:\ wasn't nearly as bad a shock as \users\rubahness\')
so now I have to dig back into the realm of xubuntu (everyone says to install xp first because it murders your master boot record) but it still got the dignity of being the first os installed!
I need to reinstall all my windows critical programs now I guess xD I got firefox, and utorrent and the driver for my wireless dongle, but I think PSP will be another one (or the GIMP if it does PSP files nowadays).
I'm so close to just restoring all the files I backed up to their original positions, but I have to wait and make my third (fourth?) partition so that they will be accessable from EVERYWHERE.
