News High-speed Vista installs via a USB key

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/03/01/high-speed_vista_installation/

 

Price on those Corsairs Tim. Do your DepEd job

 

Thats a good idea. XP takes forever to install, I haven't tried Vista yet.
Maybe the next OS we get will be on a USB drive from the start.
Hmmm, when flash memory becomes cheaper, we could be seeing games distributed this way. I hate lengthy installs

 

yes all solid state stuff instead of DVD's and Cd's, away with blu-ray an hddvd formats, USB-drives all the way!

 

Hm... i might just have to get one of those so i can boot my own os's at school.

 

I have XP on my system in about 30 minutes...no way it's longer than 1 - 1,5 hours

 

Thats pretty good, but how do you get the install info off the dvd to the usb pen, litterally copy it across?!

 

with Cheap/Fast Flash Memory delivering vista (or it's successor) by thumb drive would be quite clever maybe using an internal USB connector you could use the installation drive as a software licencing dongle.

 

Good stuff, the only real problem is that those Corsair Voyager GT's are a bit scarce on the ground atm...

 

the standard voyager would still probably be better than the DVD surely?! This implications for ready-boost are pretty good.

 

Great idea there. and if you make the drive in some queer format that won't work on normal drives, the issue with piracy would be lessened.

 

Vista installs a lot quicker than any other previous Microsoft Operating System - and I like the fact that you don't have to sit by it, entering in information every 5 minutes. This method would be very useful in Business/Corporate environments.

I'm 99% sure that in the Vista manual it says that it doesn't support dongles anymore.

 

Did you read the links laddie?

 

I missed one doug

EDIT: bugger me that is simple, voyager GT = GET

 

What has this man been smoking?
I can install XP in under 15 mins on my ageing xp2800 system where as Vista is the opposite taking around an hour.
Either someone has got their brain in backwards today or has been smoking something pretty funky

 

"for all you server junkies, Longhorn will do the same"

um.... vista... IS.... longhorn...

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/longhorn/default.mspx

And the next Windows Server is known as Longhorn.

 

Does anyone know if there is a reason why this would not work with XP as well??

I would love to try it, but will not move to Vista before I see a good reason for it (which has yet to show it self)

 

XP doesn't support USB keys at all.

 

I like that ideas by MS... naming a new product Longhorn even though Vista was Longhorn for quite some time. Not that it's confusing.
I still remember some alpha of Longhorn running fast and stable as hell on my trusty XP 2600+... the next revision kept trying to throw me to death with BSODs...

Anyways, back to topic:

I love the idea of installing Vista in under 10 minutes. I did my install in less than 30 minutes anyways but it would be nice to have it that fast especially for gamers or enthusiasts that appear to do a fresh install of the OS every 3-6 months. And as I already thought about some USB key >5 GB... perfect!