POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : PC nausea : Re: PC nausea Server Time
19 Apr 2024 21:15:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PC nausea  
From: jr
Date: 3 Aug 2019 09:00:00
Message: <web.5d4584aaf7f30a503936914a0@news.povray.org>
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).


regards, jr.


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