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Luke
Luke
23:01
But, time to head home... TTYAL
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Morning
Exam in the morning. Gonna try to hack windows 8 into running off a VHD in the afternoon ;p
Bob
Bob
23:41
@JourneymanGeek Good luck to both! :P
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Bob: and documenting the process so that I can get a blog post out ;)
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Aren't there already blogs describing running Win8 off a VHD?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
not on SU blog ;p
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek If this is for the challenge...
> Must be your own creation & not a re-write of another blog post from either the Superuser blog or any other publicly available blogs.
You're walking a very fine line :P
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Bob: why else do you think I need to spend an afternoon getting it to work?
Bob
Bob
23:44
@JourneymanGeek But are you going to look up instructions or just muddle through?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Bob: bit of both
Tom Wijsman
Tom Wijsman
@JourneymanGeek No need to hack.
Bob
Bob
lol
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
I'd cite, but go into further detail into what the commands actually do, and include my own impressions
Bob
Bob
:D
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
23:46
@TomWijsman: I have half a clue to what I'm doing. I have one source which is just commands.
Tom Wijsman
Tom Wijsman
@JourneymanGeek hanselman.com/blog/… (updated link to a newer version)
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@TomWijsman: going with this as a guide blogs.technet.com/b/haroldwong/archive/2012/08/18/…
Tom Wijsman
Tom Wijsman 
Make an empty VHD
Attach to the VHD just before installing Windows 8 Developer Preview
Install to the VHD
Rejoice
Well yeah, that might work as well.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@TomWijsman: the other method seems nicer since I get to keep the windows 7 bootloader
since I'm using the evaluation edition for this run, reversibility is important
(I think thats another way to say 'I'm a bit of a pussy')
Tom Wijsman
Tom Wijsman
@JourneymanGeek: Does keeping that boot loader really matter?
Bob
Bob
23:50
@JourneymanGeek I assume the bootloader won't get locked when the evaluation period ends
in any case, you can always restore/repair the Win7 one :P
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@TomWijsman: not hugely, would be nice since my linux install is on my windows 7 bootloader
Tom Wijsman
Tom Wijsman
When I picked Windows 7 when doing this it actually rebooted in the old bootloader.
Bob
Bob
ah
Tom Wijsman
Tom Wijsman
Because the new one is in the VHD, don't ask me how this works though... :P
And, you can always put back the Windows 7 boot loader from the installation medium.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
also this is very similar to the WTG install process
Tom Wijsman
Tom Wijsman
23:51
Or, you could install Grub as your main and introduce chain loading.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
which I want to try, just for the hell of it
Bob
Bob
I haven't read any of those installation guide, but... are you supposed to boot into a blank VHD?
Seems a bit risky.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
(hmm, does two blog entries mean two raffle tickets?)
@Bob: no, basically we're running imagex, which applies the WIM image from the disk into the blank VHD
Bob
Bob
Would making a new Virtual PC, installing Win8 in there and taking hte VHD to boot directly off of work?
@JourneymanGeek Oh. I see.. :P
Tom Wijsman
Tom Wijsman
@JourneymanGeek: Haha, I doubt it as it shows 0/1 on my profile. Although I'd just submit multiple for the fun of it...
your Windows 8 blog posts Challenge accepted?! :D
And perhaps troll @KronoS by creating a windows-8-based QotW entry, which links to my referral link. >_<
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