On 8/3/19 8:57 AM, jr wrote:
> hi,
> 
> dick balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
>> I am having trouble installing Windows 10.
>>
>> I bought the 7 year old a PC and put Mint on it because I can control
>> it.  Unfortunately, all the good games (his only concern) are Windows only.
>>
>> So I downloaded Win10, figuring I'll type in the license key from the
>> sticker on his box.  Put it on a USB stick and booted it.
>> I get the familar Windows booting spinny circle and it gets "this far"
>> and says "No device driver".  No driver for what you might ask.  Google
>> says for the USB stick.  To which I replied, "How the hell did you get
>> this far then?"
>> And now I'm stuck.
> 
> have you considered running MS Windows in a vm?  I used to use VmWare +
> VirtualBox on Slackware, no problems (with Windows 7 and 2k as guests).

Games/DirectX need access to the hardware.

I have Win8.1 in a vm on my machine. (I did qtpovray for windows in it).
I don't know win10 at all, but 8.1 I get a 1280x1024 window and that's
it, also not game friendly.

> 
> 
> regards, jr.
> 


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