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| Am I able to get discounts on the XP OS (Prof or Home), I will be studying this next and will therefore need to purchase a copy so I can study for the exam (working towards MCSA). | |
| sandy7000 2004-07-12, 6:18 am |
| United States may be different than the U.K., but I received a free copy when I took a college course. Also in the U.S., you can purchase it at a discounted rate when you are a student. I've included an example of what I mean.
Software Express for students
I know Milwaukee Area Technical college (Wisconsin-USA) accepts distance learning students. One instructor has worldwide students in his courses. At least you could get some structured learning.
MATC online
(You would be looking for Microsoft Systems Administrator.) | |
| sandy7000 2004-07-13, 2:24 am |
| BTW, this may seem counter-intuitive advice, but if it's not too costly (eBay's a great resource), install 2 other o.s. in a dual boot config with XP. At one time, I had Red Hat as the boot partition which could allow me XP or Linux, then from XP, I could choose W2K or XP (as XP won't recognize Linux). I used Ranish Partition Mgr 2.40 to flag Linux as the boot during Linux installation, and then I would switch the boot flag to the volume I wanted to install XP on & then switch again to install W2K....hmmm...a way also to bypass XP if you want to add a different os to a system with XP already on it. If you already have XP & try to install, say, W2K on another partition, it normally doesn't let you.
Anyway, back to my point. The reasoning is that you can get a global perspective of XP's limits & strengths & what it may have copied from other companies. For example; the above installation gymnastics helped me understand XP's boot loader/dual boot theories. Also, Linux is a more "bare" o.s. You don't have a GUI covering up the gears as they turn. I finally understood the theory of mounting to an empty NTFS folder in XP when I had to deal with unmount/mount in Linux. Finally, several tips I learned in Linux helped me answer questions in the exams here.
No matter what, do what's best for you! You know what can help you learn the most. I just do better when I get an overall picture & then go on to the details. | |
| freak 2004-07-13, 10:32 am |
| ... or use VMWare, or MS's version of it... | |
| sandy7000 2004-07-13, 4:09 pm |
| Yeah, VMWare & MS Virtual PC are excellent. My method is very, very rudimentary in comparison. With Virtual PC, you don't have to restart, it recognizes Linux, much more flexibility, great GUI, etc.
However,
MS Virtual PC: $129
Ranish: $ 0
Circumventing Microsoft's subterfuge to force to you buy more of their products.....
PRICELESS
I suspect XP has the ability to create a rough vm w/o an additional pgm or using a freeware one.
BTW, freak, do you think I could create a very crude version of Virtual PC by mounting the other OS (like W2K) to an empty NTFS folder? I don't know, probably not..worth a try to simply find out the uses of mountpoints. | |
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| note sure, but if you try, let us know  |
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