/me has to set up a WindowsPC – has been a long time since I was last forced into this. I feel a bit rusty concerning Windows matters.
Here I will list what I’ve done so far:
- installed Antivir
- system updates (including all the restriction stuff)
- activating – via telephone (yeah, this sucks), since I’ve installed this version too often (used it for VM-experiments heavily)
- installed Mozilla Firefox 3
- installed Mozilla Thunderbird
- installed OpenOffice 3
- installed 7zip (free compressor)
- installed Flash (and felt bad about it)
- installed AcrobateReader (and felt bad about it too)
- installed VirtualBox
- installed Console 2 (latest beta)
- concated my partimage-files (I want to virtualize an old W2k-installation with lot’s of ugly software which needs to get activated) – did not install ‘cat’, but tried: copy /b <fileA?+<fileB>+<fileC>+<fileD> <newfile>
- used 7zip to uncompress the resulting file
- used VBoxManage.exe convertfromraw <infile> <outfile.vdi> to generate a VirtualBox disk image.
Then I got struck – my newly generated image simply did not boot – more on this later.
Currently everything to step 9 would be a simple aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade && aptitude install <application-list> under Linux.
Things I did not install:
- Palm Desktop (this PC will be used with an old Garmin): I hope it will work from the virtual machine … this software and it’s drivers are at least a pain.
- M$-Office: only got an old very old version and don’t feel like buying a new one. Excel and co will be available in the VM as a fallback option – OpenOffice should do the job.