It’s update time!

I just realized that I’m still sitting in front of my computer, having gone outside maybe once today to get beer. Now I am drinking a beer. A Stella Artois. I am wondering what I am going to do tonight. My gaming posse has all but dried up. I guess they decided they needed “real-lives” and “families” and that bullshit. Well I don’t need ‘em! I can have fun without those losers!

Microsoft released Virtual PC 2004 for free today. I figured this would be a fun opportunity to try out Fedora Core 5. The last time I tried it on my somewhat tired old P4 (Ayane), it was still in Test 1 and didn’t exactly make it off the ground. The machine has sat dormant since then with a half-assed attempt at installing OpenDarwin on it. I should have checked the hardware compatibility first.

First I checked to see if I had any Windows updates available. Microsoft informed me that I first needed to update the updater to Windows Genuine Advantage. I vaguely remembered hearing that it liked to phone home and check that my software was all to their liking. Not wanting to really do that, I opted out of the install, leaving my computer somewhere around an SP2 state. I remember the last time I had to call India to get my computer authorized and it wasn’t pretty.

so, I setup VPC and had my ISO image ready to go, told VPC to mount it and got an error message. Apparently it doesn’t like DVD-sized ISO images. OK, that’s easy enough. I happened to burn it first anyway. I put in the disc and reset the virtual machine. It booted and I was presented with the FC5 boot screen. I hit enter to begin the install and this is what I got:

BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

time for a Stella…