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Re: Ping: Paul

From David <David@example.net>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mint
Subject Re: Ping: Paul
Date 2025-01-07 20:21 +0000
Message-ID <lu5gmnF3nfcU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 07/01/2025 16:03, Paul wrote:
> On Tue, 1/7/2025 5:18 AM, David wrote:
>> I have a Dell laptop on which I have Hiren's BootCD  PE Windows 11 running after using my Ventoy thumb drive loaded with Hiren's Disk.
>>
>> How can best can I install Windows 11 permanently from the Windows start page I'm on right now?
>>
>> The laptop IS connected to the Internet wirelessly.
>>
>> TIA
>>
> 
> To restate the context for the audience so they don't freak out,
> this is what David is really trying to do. This is the plan of record.
> 
> 1) David installed LM22. Sound does not work. Turns out David has a
>     "special" from RealTek, a rebrand of an ALC256 with Equalizer, and
>     the firmware file could be missing (we can't be sure of this, RealTek
>     would normally be clueless about inserting a DSP block in an HDAudio),
>     and the sound driver had likely crapping out. Perhaps David has not
>     examined "dmesg" output, which can report that a firmware item in /
>     slash tree could not be found. My tuner card doesn't have fw, and
>     dmesg blows an error for that.
> 
> 2) David is convinced that installing Windows and "testing audio", then
>     returning to LM22, is a debug path. Which it could be, if the DVD-less
>     machine had a better USB stick preparation story. This is to verify
>     the RealTek sound chip has not had a hardware failure, that connector
>     is not gummy or whatever.
> 
> David is now working up a launch method for his intermediate "debug step",
> which is to verify the sound in the laptop really really works (not a
> connector failure etc).
> 
> Otherwise, if this story deviates too much, the story belongs in
> alt.comp.os.windows-11 or alt.comp.os.windows-10 or something.
> 
> *******
> 
> The problem is, WinPE is the Preinstall Environment, which is stripped
> of certain items. I don't think there is explorer.exe the file manager
> in there. Normally, what you would want to do from the Command Prompt is
> 
>     explorer.exe  \path\to\iso\file\my-W10-DVD.iso
> 
> The context menu in Explorer has a "Mount" item for ISO files, but
> when that is not working, the explorer.exe invocation "mounts" when
> it detects the ISO and the ISO is something that happens to have
> a file system. For example, if something very foreign is on the ISO,
> then nothing can happen because the mounter does not like the taste
> of the file system.
> 
> OK, you could try this one. I don't know if a Powershell is in there.
> That too sounds like a bridge too far.
> 
>     (You're in Command Prompt window)
> 
>     powershell               # start the powershell shell and command interpreter
> 
>     Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath "C:\User\Russell\Desktop\9879.ENTERPRISE_X64.ISO"
> 
> Powershell has bad dining habits on punctuation, and commands that should
> have worked, can fail, when syntactically the command is perfect. Adding
> quotes as in the example, might help.
> 
> Once you've done that, figure out which drive letter the mount has taken.
> For example, here I am checking whether E: has got my goods.
> 
>     E:
>     dir Setup.exe
> 
> and if it lists a Setup.exe, chances are you are in the right place. Now:
> 
>     setup.exe
> 
> and run the kick-off for a Windows installation.
> 
> If you need help with a Windows installation process, answering the questions
> and so on, please switch to the appropriate Windows group for help. I recommend
> test with a Windows 10 ISO, since the Windows 11 ISO has pestilent behavior,
> and the Windows 10 is more forgiving of transgression. Windows 10 is a
> "bootstrap OS" -- you use it when your final destination could be
> elsewhere, and you don't want a lot of silly behaviors. Windows 10 runs
> on more old computers, than Windows 11 ever will.

Thank you for your comprehensive and interesting response, Paul.

Mike Easter may be unaware that we 'know' one another! He's been going 
out of his way to help me with Linux activities and is VERY patient.

-- 
David

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