The vista thing
I decided that I would like to check out Vista, and I figured the 40gb spare unallocated space on one of my hard drives will do. Since I have no idea how much I will like/hate Vista, I’m just setting up dualboot for now. The reason for doing this also lies in the fact that my current XP installation has its issues, and it’s running on an old 20GB IDE drive (due to RAID driver issues during installation); 20GB isn’t a whole lot of space and moving a live Windows installation turned out to be sort of difficult.
So far installation has been relatively painless. I didn’t even use a DVD to install; I just mounted the image using Daemon Tools while running XP and initiated the setup. That also allowed me to pull some drivers from my laptop; my desktop lacks a DVD player for the time being. It just kinda annoys me that Vista seems to go with a one size fits all approach; just install everything according to defaults, and if you need something tweaked, go figure it out later on.
Also of course the installation software doesn’t get too technical. One point did make me laugh a bit, first I got a black screen with just white letters “Please wait while Windows sets up your computer”, followed by a graphic interface with a dialog box, “Please wait while Windows continues setting up your computer.” Anyway, it seems installation is complete now; I have some serious driver installation/aero-theme-busting to do (damn I hate that skin). I’ll post my findings later.
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