February 26, 2009 at 8:27 am
· Filed under Geek
Fulfilling my geek quota for a month or two, I installed Windows 7 on K’s new HP mini 1000. We had the Win7 beta DVD but of course the mini has no dvd drive or ethernet port, ruling out the two most obvious install options.
It does have USB ports but I couldn’t set the BIOS to boot from USB so it was looking a bit ropey. The mini comes with XP installed so I tried copying the contents of the DVD (about 3GB) onto the mini’s C: drive and presto - setup ran from within XP and it installed perfectly!
If in doubt, go with the simplest option first :-)
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August 6, 2007 at 9:48 pm
· Filed under Farm Tech, Geek, Random, Survival
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July 31, 2007 at 8:49 am
· Filed under Geek, Woodworking
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June 24, 2007 at 5:50 pm
· Filed under Geek, Random
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May 25, 2007 at 10:03 am
· Filed under Food, Geek
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September 13, 2006 at 12:50 am
· Filed under DIY Tech, Farm Tech, Geek, Random
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August 23, 2006 at 12:38 am
· Filed under DIY Tech, Farm Tech, Geek, Survival
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August 7, 2006 at 3:15 am
· Filed under DIY Tech, Geek, Random
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· Filed under Geek, Random
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· Filed under Geek, Random
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