Well - I took the plunge this weekend and installed Vista on my Motion LS800. I left my USB DVD drive at the office so I installed by booting off the network into Windows PE. Once in PE I used Imagex.exe to create a Windows Image file (wim) image of the XP install onto a USB Hard Drive.
Next I ran the install from a desktop's DVD drive that I shared for this occasion. It took a while, but it worked.
After the OS install I had to pull down a new wireless driver from Windows Update before it would get a DHCP address.
I pulled down a couple of other drivers at the same time and the end result is that all the devices in device manager have a diver installed.
Next I installed Office 2007 Beta 2 TR. Now I'm working my through my other core applications.
So far I've installed:
- TrendMicro PC-Cillin 14
- Acrobat Reader 7
- FeedDemon 2
- FolderShare
I also installed version 4.0.0.5 of the Motion Dashboard from the Motion website but it has a few issues. Firstly I had to right-click the installer and configure it to run in Windows XP sp2 mode for it to install. It now will run, but it errors on exit.
Also the default setting for the Motion tablet button driver is to call an app called mcrotate when you press the rotate button.This app is not there until you install the dashboard and it still does not work after installing it.In order to get rotation working I changed the action for that button in Tablet andPen Setting control panel to "Change Display Orientation".
Next up, more apps to install. Still plenty more to go...