I decided to keep a time log of the installation process, so I can show people how quick and easy it is. --Famous Last Words
4:58 Boot from USB
5:07 Expanding Windows Files
5:19 "Windows Developer Preview" appears on screen :)
5:34 Choose login settings, screen is black ?!
5:35 A box appeared :) Setting up Windows Media Player
5:35 Finally the Metro Desktop!
IE won't launch from Metro, trying to adjust resolution. Opening
Control Panel...apparently there are no resolution settings in the Metro control panel??
Back to legacy Control Panel...
Got resolution fixed & downloaded Chrome
5:49 One monitor won't work, and I can't find out what the graphics card is from within Windows 8. Booting back to Win 7 to see.
Right, it nuked my Win 7, no boot options anymore.
5:55 Installing Belarc Advisor; no good
6:01 Installing driverboost, reluctantly
6:05 Waiting while it downloads .NET
6:15 DriverBoost seems frozen
6:45 Gave up on DriverBoost; opened box, card says HIS X1550, Radeon
7:08 Box back together, after considerable struggle
7:08 Driver has been moved to legacy support structure; written on 2/24/10 and already apparently obsolete
7:10 Driver will take 20 min. to download, I am thinking of just using Linux instead...
7:25 Screen went black; adjust power saving settings to stop that. 5 min. left on the download.
7:32: Installing graphics driver
7:34 Restarting
7:38 Still only one screen; in Device Manager installing a driver manually; Windows noticed my Microsoft keyboard and asked for permission to download a driver for that too.
7:39 Wow! Both screens lit up :)
7:41 Installing Microsoft Office 2010
7:52 Office installed; installing DropBox.
7:56 Dropbox download freezes in Chrome
8:00 Try IE, it freezes even more strangely, showing two download boxes with different file sizes, both frozen. But the Chrome download finally finishes. Launching the installer.
8:02 Screen went black; apparently Windows Explorer crashed & restarted during the installation.
8:06 Dropbox installed, synchronizing.
8:08 Downloading Tweetdeck.
8:16 Launching Microsoft Word; launch button appears only on Metro desktop but it runs on the other one.
8:19 Installing SSH Secure Shell Client. The installer seems to work, but won't close. I stop it in Task Manager, and it pops up an error message saying "The remote procedure call failed". But the installed app works OK.