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Re: [LUG] W2K was Re: Speaking of VirtualBox ...

 

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Simon Waters wrote:

What W2K installation media is being used?

CD-ROM.

Although I've never actually performed an install with it - I just have it tucked away safely.

Basically I bough the PC 2nd hand off a company that was going bust on the (dodgy) advice of a friend who then sold me Quickbooks when I first went self employed - 10+ years ago...

I have the misfortune to support some software that only runs under W2K,
and we have a W2K box under XEN for that purpose. We even have
paravirtualized drivers for XEN which makes performance tolerable.

However before that I created a W2K slipstreamed disk that allows W2K to
be installed on hardware supported in W2K SP4, which allowed it to be
installed in DELL SC1425s amongst other boxes.

Whilst I failed miserably to create my own W2K virtualized box that was
because I wanted XEN HVM and didn't have the hardware to hand.

Although Microsoft don't support W2K, or the process to backup and
restore to new hardware, they do document it. It is basically install,
restore backup, reinstall drivers you need to boot. The only daft gotcha
I hit is that W2K chkdsk may run if it doesn't understand a partition,
and will almost certainly make destructive modifications to disk in such
circumstances after a 9 second pause.

The one thing I don't really want to try is a re-install from scratch as I'd have to re-install QB and I suspect as it's now a very old version of QB it might be problematic.

Oh and yes don't do this Gordon, get some sensible accounting software,
and make sure any old accounts archives are accessible enough under the
new system even if that means printing them out as big text files or
some such so you never have to touch it again.

It seemed sensible at the time - and yes, I have backups, both electronic and paper! (So much for the paperless office )-:

Gordon

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