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methodtim · 04-26-2003, 06:53 PM

I've been toiling with Win2k3 since RC1, and it's actually pretty neat. As far as dual booting goes, the following process has worked for me:

- Clean install of XP on C: Partition. Install all the apps you need and make it pretty, etc.

- Boot to the Win2k3 Server CD, it will detect your WinXP installation and grumble a bit, but as long as you install the NOS to a completely different drive letter (i.e. D),

you'll be fine.

Dual booting isn't nearly as haphazard as it was with NT 4.0; the only real thing you have to be careful of is installing apps to the C: drive when you're working within 2k3 Srvr. This shouldn't happen at all with properly written apps which base their install path on System Environment Variables, but a lot of crappy applications are hard-coded to install to C:\Program Files\blah blah blah.

Hope this helps.

04-26-2003, 06:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
methodtim Tilted Location: Lake Forest, CA aka Middle of God Damn Nowhere	I've been toiling with Win2k3 since RC1, and it's actually pretty neat. As far as dual booting goes, the following process has worked for me: - Clean install of XP on C: Partition. Install all the apps you need and make it pretty, etc. - Boot to the Win2k3 Server CD, it will detect your WinXP installation and grumble a bit, but as long as you install the NOS to a completely different drive letter (i.e. D), you'll be fine. Dual booting isn't nearly as haphazard as it was with NT 4.0; the only real thing you have to be careful of is installing apps to the C: drive when you're working within 2k3 Srvr. This shouldn't happen at all with properly written apps which base their install path on System Environment Variables, but a lot of crappy applications are hard-coded to install to C:\Program Files\blah blah blah. Hope this helps. __________________ We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance Well they're are no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to a place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind and we can dance.