Public Beta2 of Vista out

[VJ]

Oh, one more thing: can I install it on a PC that doesn't have internet access?


Jörg

[agallag]

The partitioning can be done through the Vista installer. If it gives you an error that the drive isn't initialized (or something like that), just restart and try it again.

There's no need for internet access during the install, only if you want to activate.

[VJ]

Ha, ok...
At the start of the installation, I found out that I need the VMWare driver disk... Not having internet, I couldn't continue then...

Internet access needed to activate... Well, I guess I can move the VM to a machine that has access to activate it.


Jörg

[agallag]

What do you need the driver disk for? I've never needed that when installing in vmware.

[VJ]

I am using the .iso file as the DVD drive. At the beginning of the installation, Vista reports it cannot find a suitable driver for the DVD drive, and stops. (I'm using VMWare Workstation 4.x)

Perhaps it would be easier to just burn the .iso to a disk...


Jörg

[agallag]

There's your problem. Vista is only supported in Workstation 5.5 and up.

[The PIT]

Tried it at work wouldn't install with a fat32 primary drive in dual boot. Got it too install by disabling the first two drives but the install wouldn't finnish just rebooted all the time.
Anyone tried dual booting it with Linux????

[VJ]

There's your problem. Vista is only supported in Workstation 5.5 and up.

Oops... Well, Workstation 4.x has an option for Longhorn, which I used.

I haven't been following VM Ware closely: which of their products is now free, and does it work with that?


Jörg

[Elie]

I installed Vista on an AMD machine XP 2100 with 1GB ram and a wireless Dlink adapter.

Well everything works fine, a bit slow due to the G450 that I have, will change it to a newer card.

however I have one issue and another annoying one...

1-Dlink card DWL-520+ is not recognized, even if I installed the XP drivers from the CD, it's enabled and sees my wireless router and others in neighborhood, however when i want to connect to my network, it says unable to due to the adapter not responding.

Is there a wireless adapter that you know is supported under Vista?

2-The other annoying issue is the Secure user access control, everytime I open anything in control panel it pops up a message, saying would you like to continue etc. etc..
in the security center, how do I disable that?

Thanks,
Elie

[Elie]

ok issue number 2 solved
It's in the local security policies.

Cheers,
Elie

[Elie]

Anyone running wireless sucessfully with Vista?

And what wireless NIC do you recommend?

Thanks,
Elie

[uberlad]

I am running Wireless sucessfully with Vista at home.

the model is the

Kcorp KLG-530 - GOLD 108g + Wireless PCI Adapter

originally bought to match with my router but no longer running in 108 mode.

I had to find the XP drivers before it was recognised properly but it connects to my WPA protected network with no trouble.

Uberlad

[COLD]

BTW, Vista does not install on a SCSI drive and Adaptec only comment (web site) is that they have presently no drivers available. The funny part is that I could not found any mention about that fact in Vista's BETA documentation.

My standard drives are all SATA/EIDE but I still use SCSI drives for testing purposes (especially for BETA software). Time to pull out of my retired 20GB EIDE hard drive from the closet...

DC

[lowlifecat]

I installed Vista on an AMD machine XP 2100 with 1GB ram and a wireless Dlink adapter.

however I have one issue and another annoying one...

1-Dlink card DWL-520+ is not recognized, even if I installed the XP drivers from the CD, it's enabled and sees my wireless router and others in neighborhood, however when i want to connect to my network, it says unable to due to the adapter not responding.

Is there a wireless adapter that you know is supported under Vista?

Thanks,
Elie

are you running the 64bit vista?

i got two of those 520+ and have never been able to run them under XP64. i assume vista 64bit has the exact same issues with wifi drivers as XP pro64.

i did some extensive research into this a while back. Found out a certain Belkin chipset would work fine but it had to be a certain model number. I went to compusmart and found what i thought to be the exact wifi card, same model number and everything...

guess what, Belkin had released multiple versions of the card, with different chips but with the same model number.

apparently certain realtek wifi cards will work out of the box with XP64. i don't remember which model though. at this point i had given up on getting wifi to work with xp64. i really didn't need to buy a 4th wifi card.

[Elie]

are you running the 64bit vista?

i got two of those 520+ and have never been able to run them under XP64. i assume vista 64bit has the exact same issues with wifi drivers as XP pro64.

i did some extensive research into this a while back. Found out a certain Belkin chipset would work fine but it had to be a certain model number. I went to compusmart and found what i thought to be the exact wifi card, same model number and everything...

guess what, Belkin had released multiple versions of the card, with different chips but with the same model number.

apparently certain realtek wifi cards will work out of the box with XP64. i don't remember which model though. at this point i had given up on getting wifi to work with xp64. i really didn't need to buy a 4th wifi card.

Thanks!!

I will buy Linksys then and try it out.

Thanks,
Elie