My action pack update came in a few weeks back with the Vista upgrade disks and today I had a spare few mins so figured I’d do a practice upgrade*. So I copy one of the Win XP testing VMWare virtual machines boot it up and over lunch install Putty, Photoshop CS2, Fireworks, my PHP IDE, the MySQL GUI that I use and a little screen ruler app; not everything that I use but the stuff that I need to be productive. I then run the upgrade disc.
I get asked to enter serial number and then there are two options “Upgrade” or “Custom (advanced)” which is basically install from scratch. Unfortunately “upgrade has been disabled” because I don’t have 9.6 GB free on the partition (I give the VM 10GB as I thought it’d be enough for testing) so I click custom where I get to see the partition information, unfortunately from this route it says that I cannot continue because it needs 6.4GB free and I only have 5.3. After this message it also says “To make changes to partitions, restart windows from the installation disc”
So I do this (after some VMWare BIOS shenanigans getting it to boot from DVD) and eventually get the serial number entry box again. This time after typing it in I’m told that my serial number is only suitable for upgrading so I should load up windows and run the setup program again!
Gah! I’ll try again with a larger VM Instance the next time I have a ’spare’ hour.
*For the record I’m not normally this anal, but I can’t afford to be without a computer for a day if it screws up.
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