VISTA Installation issues

[wase4711]

Well, I am d/l it now, and I thought this would be a good place to start a thread for installation issues..
If you have installed Vista, and have any issues, post them here..

I will start with some questions of my own:

Does vista have to be installed from a boot situation, or can you run an "upgrade" from Windows?

Does vista support RAID installations, or will that be supported later; anyone with a RAID set up install this yet?

Does IE7 beta work any better in Vista than it does in XP SP2?


thanks!

[DoG]

You cannot upgrade any version of Windows with the current Beta, you can however run the setup program from a Windows Enviroment and install Vista to Dual Boot.

If you have Raid Drivers it's best to keep them handy, you can load the at the start of the dos based setup phase by pressing F6. Vista does have a lot of hardware drivers built in, you can check the Beta website for a list of supported equipment.

It's supposed to be closely intergrated with Vista which seems to imply that it should do, i can't verify this though as the damn beta servers are shite and swamped.

[~*McoreD*~]

Got the same question wase has. So repeating...

Q: Does vista support RAID installations, or will that be supported later; anyone with a RAID set up install this yet?

EDIT01:

Some Ctrl+V: Seems like Vista doesn't detect RAID automatically?

Quote:

I got the windows vista beta today from msdn but I can't seem to find instructions on how to install on raid. I've try multiple setups, first I tried to install from my windows install but that failed, after that I tried to install directly from boot dvd, but that also failed is there isn't such a thing as (press F6 to install storage drivers). So now I'm lost, how do I install this beta on a raid disk.

When using the Load driver option during Setup, the following restrictions
apply:

* If you must load more than one storage driver during Setup by clicking Load
driver, only select one driver at a time. To load more than one driver, add
the first driver and click Next, then repeat the Load driver option for each
additional driver.

* In this release of "Longhorn" versions of Windows, you will be unable to
install mass storage drivers by using the Load driver option on computers with
less than 256 MB of memory. To work around this problem, add the additional
drivers to the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) before running
Setup. Refer to the Windows Automated Installation Kit for more details about
adding drivers to Windows PE.

* In "Longhorn" versions of Windows, Unattended Setup does not support
additional drivers. If you must add drivers that are not supplied by
"Longhorn" versions of Windows you must perform an attended (interactive)
setup.

[wase4711]

OK, more questions...

Does MSN messsenger work with Vista?
Does any CD burning Proggie work with it?
How about Soundblaster sound cards?
How about Firefox?

[war59312]

MSN 7.5 Build 162 Works With Vista Beta 1

[wase4711]

thanks Will; it doesn't matter for me anymore, since I cant get Vista to install on my RAID 0 machine, so I will be waiting for Beta 2!

[DoG]

Mass storage drivers for windows XP DO work on Vista, you have to install them in the setup phase. Straight from the Vista Newsgroups.

[wase4711]

tried that, but got the message "setup has failed, can't install ....inf"

tried it several times....

[war59312]

I installed ok via raid but I can not login.

Says cant connect to domain.

Dont tell my i have to turn my winxp machine into a domain controler first.

[wase4711]

maybe something to do with RAID??
I have read on several other boards that this version does NOT handle RAID configs properly..guess I should check out the news groups to see, but after re-storing from my image twice yesterday, I am in no hurry to jump back on this..