Re: Question on Windows Server 2003

On 21 Sep 2005 in alt.2600, Noodles Jefferson
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> Ok, so's I'm working the rat lab tonight and some girl comes in because
> she installed Win Server 2k3 on her laptop. I tried but I never worked
> with Win Server 2k3 before. No help from Microsoft or Google on the
> issue. Basically what happened was that the install keeps stalling out.
> It goes through the first 3 steps then stalls out. Then the only way to
> go is reboot (via on/off button), which brings up the new fucked-up OS
> for another round of exactly the same thing. Can't read disk, can't do
> nothing. Put the disk in, starts the installing drivers/devices/stuff,
> where it always stalls out.
>
> So, she already returned the disk back to the disk goddess. I'm only
> drop-off and pick-up. Found a different one, waiting patiently for
> whoever to pick it up, tried it, same thing. At this point, all she's
> got is a hosed OS, so I'm like "you're gonna have to reformat it with
> whatever disks came with your laptop." I don't know what the hell to
> tell her and if you can't use the OS, you're pretty fucked. (She said
> she just got it, it looked it.) Now, there were issues with it last
> semester too, though I didn't have any direct contact with any of them,
> so I'm don't even really know what those issues are, just heresay
> anecdotal stuff.
>
> My first thought was that you really shouldn't be installing the server
> OS on a laptop but part of my mind keeps thinking, well it's windows,
> can it be *that* fundamentally different? Does a desktop make an easier
> transition or is that smitable too? So, setting aside whether it's a
> good idea or not, is it physically possible. I guess that's my first
> question. Second is, how feasible is this? Good sweet jesus don't ever
> do this bad or no big deal?
>
> And whatever insights just for future knowledge you might want to
> share, feel free.
>
>
>

There's really no good reason to install server on a laptop. There's
nothing 2k or XP can't do for a laptop that 2k3 can. It's basically just
wasting resources and installing crap that she's never going to need.

That said, there's really no reason NOT to install server on a laptop if
the situation warrants it. It should work just fine.

Hope that clears things up! :)

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