problems installing vista

buachille · 23 Jan 2007 at 22:14

hi.

this is all getting really confusing. i am trying to install vista on my machine and getting lots of problems.

when i get to a certain stage of the install it asks me if i want to install on hda1, hda2, or hda3, and which should be my swap partition but i don't want to swap anything so i dont know what to do here. also, what is yast? i haven't read any other posts that mention this........ i also get this error message:
Error installing packages which-2.14mdk.i586

also, i want to install that freebsd thingy as an addon device, but i see no option to allow me to do that. is vista not compatible with freebsd????

and what is this kernel thing it loads at the start, and then all this text comes down the screen like the matrix or something? my xp didn't used to do this.

i bought this disc off a guy down the local market and i'm really starting to wonder if it really is vista. it just looks SSSOOOOO different and, to be honest, rubbish.

do you think i have a copy of a vista disc here

bledd · 23 Jan 2007 at 22:17

lmao

you've got a linux disc of some sort

-report him to ms

buachille · 23 Jan 2007 at 22:27

bledd. said:
lmao

you've got a linux disc of some sort

-report him to ms

your winding me up surely. what is linux anyway

sounds like something that doesn't recognise your hardware to me :confused:

spinstorm · 23 Jan 2007 at 22:36

If you seriously bought it from a guy down the market then I doubt its real as its not even out in a retail version yet! and the OEM versions have only been sent out this week!

Linux is another operating system if you didn't know. Don't ask me anything about it as I don't know. But it doesnt sound like you have Vista there!

buachille · 23 Jan 2007 at 22:46

so what about that freebsd hardware addon dongle thingy. is that something for connecting your router to your dhcp pings? i've tried to ping it with suse but that didn't work?? in fact suse doesn't ever work. never had any luck with it. :cool:

bledd · 23 Jan 2007 at 23:07

are you just being a total noob, or are you trying to be funny?

buachille · 23 Jan 2007 at 23:11

well ok. maybe i am a noob. can't see how thats funny

anyway, i have another problem. my toaster won't connect to my firewire 800 card, which means i can't create a scheduled task to make my toast.

honestly, i am just going to get rid of this computer. it is useless.

right i am done now. better stop before i get banned.

sorry :cool:

bledd · 24 Jan 2007 at 03:22

if it was april 1st, i'd expect crap like this :confused:

are* you stoned [edit]*were[/edit]

buachille · 24 Jan 2007 at 19:28

no. not stoned. just came over all ridiculous.