Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Windows 8 Development: Installing Win8 (Day1)
There are 2 ways to install Windows8 on a machine: either as a virtual machine, or as the base OS. Either way, you need to get the Win8 iso image, which can be found here. At this moment (15.05.2012) only the Consumer Preview version is available, and the serial key can be found on the same page.
To install Win8 as a virtual machine I followed the steps (in VMWare Player):
File -> Create New Virtual Machine -> Select "Installer Disc Image file (iso)" and point to the location of the Win8 iso file -> Guest Operating System: Microsoft Windows and Version: Windows 8 -> Virtual Machine Name: Windows 8 -> Finish
To install Win8 as the base OS, you need to mount the iso as a DVD (use Alcohol 120%) and run the Setup.
Note: you can install Win8 on top of Win7 while preserving all the Programs Files and Documents you previously had. Win8 does NOT require formatting of the disk. However, it will complain if there is less than 16GB space on the destination partition. However, it will need only 9GB. The total duration of installing is around 2 hours.
To install Win8 as a virtual machine I followed the steps (in VMWare Player):
File -> Create New Virtual Machine -> Select "Installer Disc Image file (iso)" and point to the location of the Win8 iso file -> Guest Operating System: Microsoft Windows and Version: Windows 8 -> Virtual Machine Name: Windows 8 -> Finish
To install Win8 as the base OS, you need to mount the iso as a DVD (use Alcohol 120%) and run the Setup.
Note: you can install Win8 on top of Win7 while preserving all the Programs Files and Documents you previously had. Win8 does NOT require formatting of the disk. However, it will complain if there is less than 16GB space on the destination partition. However, it will need only 9GB. The total duration of installing is around 2 hours.
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