Wish me luck...

[Disco PhoolCat]

Gah! Htf do you do a fresh install? Teh Start Here guide says you can, but not how. I tried running the setup.exe from the CD & it just says "...cannot be run in DOS mode" FECK! ARSE! DRINK!!!! <glug> Ahhh....

/edit IGNORE THIS POST for a bit, I've just found a readme file! Well, it wasn't called readme, it was called Home.txt, so htf was I to know? Plus when I couldn't boot from the CD I suspect the bios was looking in the wrong one, DOH!

 

[Testin da Cable]

look for summat called winnt.exe or winxp.exe [guess] and run that. seeing as that's the same stunt winnt/win2k pull heh

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

So, now it's working, having put the CD in the other drive...

Ooooh, this is exiting!!!

93% done copying files!

 

[Summo]

Ooh... the tension...

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

Setup will complete in
approximately:
30 minutes

mw I'll twiddle thumbs, post on here & try & beat my anchient crate into playing at being an email server - won't see teh bloody mouse on teh com port at the mo! - what fun!

 

[Hashmonster]

ooo, it's so exciting - what percentage now?

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

Just shot down to 19 mins, where it's been stuck for about 3...

 

[Summo]

Ahh, Install Time™. A bizarre concept of 'time' created through a complex series of formulae. The end result consistently succeeds in having no bearing on 'real time' and serves to confuse and frustrate. Linked closely with the concept of Percent Complete™.

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

:uhoh:Uhoh, we're rebooting again!!!!

Please insert the soul marked "Windows XP lUser" into drive now...

OK...

Here is a personal message from Bill Gates...
0\/\/n3d!!!!12¬

Eeeep!

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

OMFG, it's opened a portal & sucked me into some sort of hell dimension, it looks like, like, NO! IT CAN'T BE!!!

AAAAAHHHHHH! I'm lost in TELLYTUBBY LAND!!!

 

[Testin da Cable]

rofl

BillG has you by the nuts now PhoolCat

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Oi Andy you big tit, come visit us in IRC.

 

[Testin da Cable]

can't mate, soz
taking a wee break, and I have to be gone in ten minutes. something to do with mother's day and all. you know how it is...

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

Mother's Day??? Oh, in Holland, right? Not UK. <phew>

 

[FuZor]

I also tried the XP upgrade, However after a CLEAN install I can say its the only way to fly!

 

[mr.Blacky]

Originally posted by Disco PhoolCat
Mother's Day??? Oh, in Holland, right? Not UK. <phew>

yeah glad I heared it yesterday phew

 

[Testin da Cable]

aye, here in holland, though I didn't know it had been spread about really. hope I didn't scare you too much

 

[Munkey-]

*goes windowshopping in amsterdam again*


nothing quite like the experience of cycling through the red light district and viewing the condom factory

(stayed inthe hauge. got to cycle to the nuddy beach as well which was fun. hid in the WWII bunker thingys and pretended I was shooting them with meh binoc......)

aaaaannnnnyway. the canadian/american (cant remember which) ambassador to holland is a decent chappy

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

:/

Well, it's in & on, & so far so good...

...just got to install a shedload of sw now, inc. essentials like jkii & ef - that should keep me busy for a while...

 

[mr.Blacky]

dont forget all the ef maps I forgot that the last time I had to reinstall

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

No problemo! They're all still on the old hd, so I just install, patch, drag & drop - no worries, right?

Um, at this point I could do with a :fingerscrossed: smilie...

 

[Summo]

Hurrah! Despite what a large number of grey-toolbarred 2K fanbwoi's say, XP is definitely the way forward.

Congratulations, son...

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

Yep - I thought I'd be setting right back to Classic stylie desktop look, but those svelte curves are kinda growing on meh...

If only I could change the colours - silver's quite nice, but I'd prefer something a little bluer...

 

[Summo]

Style XP is supposed to be the daddy of XP 'theming' but I personally find that any one of the three default ones sit well with all my desktop images.

WindowBlinds is the Microsoft-approved XP-skinning tool, but its 'orses fer courses, innit?

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

Ok, I'm a convert! As of tonite, XP officially r0x0rs!!!

Installed jk2, pld 1st time online tonite, thought I'd give it a whirl...

I thought I'd stretch it a bit & upped my res & detail settings - and it's STILL bloody faster & smooother than it was under 98SE!!!

I'll muck around with the settings another night, I'm off to bed now as I have to be up crack of sparrows to go get Disco Dormouse & friend from teh airport!

da Mousie r returning!

 

[old.Fweddy]

I'm on XP as well now! i thought i'd celebrate gettin my new hdd and upgrade from 98se. i like it so far, it detected and installed all my hardware instantly, and i can use transparency on trillian now!

 

[Hashmonster]

well XP is running well for meh now, sorted my cd writing probs