As in the late Andrew Ducker

[andrewducker]

Eventually found the XP disk at 10:30 and installed it onto HD two. Worked perfectly, except that I had to boot back into the old install to download drivers for the motherboard (and network card).

Now have Thunderbird, Firefox, Semagic, AVG and Steam installed, with CS: Source merrily downloading.

Advantages of online installers - I've lost my Quake4 booklet, complete with install key, which makes installing it somewhat problematical. On the other hand, I downloaded Steam, entered my user name/password and I now have access to HL2 again. Perfect!

Now, if I can manage to avoid the temptation to install loads of shite on this partition maybe I can keep it running smoothly...

Comments

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Of course (doh!) I have CS 1.6 installed since getting this new beastie. Not Source.

Oh well. Click. *waits*........

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

I shall avoid saying something like this (http://www.apple.com) :).

I'd like online installers were it not for the Added Evil (™) - although never having played half-life for reasons similar to that why I haven't got WoW [yet...] - basically, I don't want to spend six months being forbidden from leaving this chair - I can't really comment.

Certainly, not having to bother about swapping discs is great!

[andrewducker]

A large chunk of software I run doesn't work under Apple, making it comopletely useless to me...

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a better link would have been this (http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/) :).

[andrewducker]

Great. I can pay for overpriced hardware so that I can not run an OS that doesn't support my software.

Yay!

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I know :P.