How did you setup your Win 8 install?

[Avalon]

Installed as primary on my laptop with a USB. The USB was a few megabytes short so I had to duplicate Segoe a few times and replicate the other fonts with it... But the installer still worked!
Yeah, that was a big step to make it my primary OS... It's working fine though.

 

[ValerieAnne]

I will be installing it as a dual boot, when it is finished downloading.

 

[Pooch]

Installed as primary on my desktop, I wanted to dual boot but the installation onto my Vertex2 was just to difficult and it quickly changed my mind lol

 

[boyans]

I have a free primary partition for installing different Windows versions (and Linux-likes).
Made the partition active and used USB to install 32-bit W8DP there. No problems.

All relevant boot config files for W8 are on this partition. If I want to get rid of W8DP - just would delete the partition.
The first partition is still holding the original boot files. So making first partition active will give me my old setup.

 

[XDleader555]

I had no money to buy windows 7 and I didn't feel like installing linux, so i installed windows 8 64- bit as my primary... For now...

 

[martyfelker]

I set mine up on an experimental machine quad boot (Windows 8, Ubuntu, Fedora and Sabayon) Used Terabyteunlimted Boot IT Bare metal as boot manager - HIHGLY RECOMMEND Check it!C

 

[Kat]

I tried it on my Acer 5735 laptop, and it ran very well, but I didn't want to use it as my main OS.

So, I installed it on my desktop machine ( An Acer SA10 2.4 Ghz P4HT with 1GB RAM and a GeForce
5700 256MB graphics card, SB Live! sound, 80GB Maxtor 7500rpm hard-disk). It runs as well as Win
7 does on the same machine, and they both beat Vista hands-down (again on the same machine).

Aero works fine, and Win 8 is perfectly useable, even on older machines like this. IE10 is OK, basically
an update of IE9.

Over-all, I like Win 8 so far, it seems to be basically a tweaked version of Win 7 under the hood.

HATE that new Start Menu, tho. Not that it matters, Quick-launch is still there

It's NOT very stable, though, so am waiting with bated breath for the beta.

BTW, has anyone else had problems installing Win 8 into VirtualBox? Mine simply WON'T.

 

[Dave76]

No, installed easily on VB.

 

[xKrNMBoYx]

I originally was attempting to dual boot it along with Win 7 (maybe even Ubuntu), but the particular ISO I had was corrupted, so I used the ISO from my desktop computer. I ended up doing a single primary OS install. This one was successful. I almost reverted back because I couldn't connect to the Universities Wifi, but after updating the OS and drivers I was able to so it is a keep.

 

[winstontj]

First install was yesterday on my main machine (Dell T5500 2x W5580 CPUs, 48GB RAM, W7x64) running VMware Workstation 8.0 (no issues, great OS, etc.) Virtual W8 Build has 4-cores with 12GB RAM. Seems pretty cool - I cut out all the crap so it looks identical to W7 except the login screen.

Running 65 instances of W8 VM's on ESXi 5.0 on a quad-node high availability cluster... Seems fine so far. Need to sort out a few bugs with migration & failover but pretty good.

Having a bunch of issues installing on Xen Hypervisor (XCP). Device passthrough isn't working, OS freezes, etc. idk wtf is up with that. W7 is fine so W8 should work??


I have been unable (due to driver issue) to perform a clean install on any of my machines - I think its my RAID cards but I'm not sure...

W8 changes:

I disabled that aero screen
use the start menu
adjust for best performance in the advanced settings
turn off & disable Themes
removed a bunch of crap in add/remove windows features
added custom HDD encryption keys - having issues with that
having trouble getting full functionality from PuTTy and can't get XP's HyperTerminal working properly

It looks exactly like W7 - I can't really tell the difference. All ~100 or so instances I've built & am testing are identical.

 

[Kynix]

x64 on clean install to my primary computer

 

[alphanumeric]

Installed the 64 bit version over (no dual boot) a fresh Windows 7 x64 install on my backup rig.

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

Salvaged junk machine....after all it is a prebeta.... so no matter how badly it may go, there is a dumpster at work....

 

[MadHorseman]

Installed 32-bit in Dual (actually triple) boot mode on old PC - unhappy with that (few Metro apps work) then in Virtualbox 64-bit on main machine - running nicely. Will wait for Beta before Dual (Quad) boot on main MC.

 

[CB]

Installed WDP 64-bit dual boot with Linuxmint 11 64-bit. Runs pretty good, except the annoying-uneasy shutdown.

 

[neerajjalutharia]

using Windows 8x64 DP in Dual boot..!!!

 

[jamezb3]

I installed mine in a .vhd by extracting install.wim using imagex and running this simple command from system32 bcdboot.exe H:\Windows
It skips half the installation process and bypasses the need for easybcd.

 

[moses]

I installed on my main Netbook , I am running Build 8102 Intel Atom

 

[kb7uar]

I set mine up. Virtual Machine. Took awhile to get it running I had to enable virtual on my bios first.
I can't set up a duel boot on this HP lap Top, wish I could.

 

[sandman]

Clean install of the W8CP 64 bit on Toshiba M305-4828 Laptop just installed Office 2010 Pro Plus 64 bit no problem . I have also run it in a v ware install but it runs a little sluggish in that install.