Setting up the Shuttle SD37P2
September 9th, 2006
I got all of my parts for my new Shuttle over the last few days and finally got it setup today. It was a little more painful than I expected (on the software side). I won’t both listing out all the permutations I had to go through as some of it was a limitation of my current PC, but here’s the final set of steps I went through.
- Downloaded Windows XP Pro SP2 from MSDN and burned it to a boot CD using my laptop (because my current desktop’s CD burner is 4 years old and totally unreliable).
- Configured the SD37P2 to run my two 320 GB hard drives in regular SATAII mode (not in RAID).
- Installed Win XP SP2 on the SD37P2.
- Installed all of the Shuttle drivers and Nero that came with the Lite-On DVD Burner I bought.
- Downloaded Windows Vista RC1 from MSDN.
- Burned the Vista ISO onto a DVD-R.
- Rebooted the SD37P2 and went into the BIOS and turned on RAID and then configured one RAID 0 striped set of drives.
- Put in the Windows Vista DVD and booted from that.
- Installed Windows Vista!
After all of that I’m up and running and installing software. I’m going to try out most of the stuff we use on a regular basis before fully committing to getting rid of our old Win XP box (that’s destined to become a media center I think).
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