I'm running XP Home on my laptop. I want to play with Microsoft SQL Server, and a tutorial I found online said I need to have IIS (internet information services) installed. After doing some research, it seems that XP Home doesn't have this....but there's an annoying and involved work around that includes getting a Windows 2000 CD. If I had a Windows 2000 CD, that would be fine and dandy, but I don't. So if I'm going to be getting another Windows CD from somebody, I might as well get an XP Pro CD, right? Because apparently IIS is available on XP Pro.
So I downloaded and burned an image of an XP Pro CD onto a DVD and I have a CD Key. I went to install this on a junker computer so I don't fuck anything up on my laptop....and of course it won't boot from my burnt DVD. I can run it from my DVD burner, but obviously I can't boot from that.
So the question I have is, how much damage can I do to my laptop if I install XP Pro over XP Home......or is there an easier way outside of finding a real XP Pro CD and installing it on the junker? I tried installing Pro over Home on the junker, and it froze. Now whenever I start that up, it asks me which OS I want to start up with. I do not want that to happen on my laptop. All I really want is to have IIS available to me.
I guess if it comes down to it, I can take my junker in to a computer store and have them put Pro on (I know the guy that owns the place, so they could do it for me when they get a chance). But I was hoping to get into this SQL Server stuff rather quickly.
Thoughts?
So I downloaded and burned an image of an XP Pro CD onto a DVD and I have a CD Key. I went to install this on a junker computer so I don't fuck anything up on my laptop....and of course it won't boot from my burnt DVD. I can run it from my DVD burner, but obviously I can't boot from that.
So the question I have is, how much damage can I do to my laptop if I install XP Pro over XP Home......or is there an easier way outside of finding a real XP Pro CD and installing it on the junker? I tried installing Pro over Home on the junker, and it froze. Now whenever I start that up, it asks me which OS I want to start up with. I do not want that to happen on my laptop. All I really want is to have IIS available to me.
I guess if it comes down to it, I can take my junker in to a computer store and have them put Pro on (I know the guy that owns the place, so they could do it for me when they get a chance). But I was hoping to get into this SQL Server stuff rather quickly.
Thoughts?