XP or Vista on laptop

[silverbirch]

Hi everyone

A couple of years ago I bought a laptop with Vista on it.  I intended to dual boot with Pclos but at the time couldn't manage it so it's standalone Pclinuxos.

My camera software is for Windows or Mac so I'd like to try Windows on the machine, and the dual boot.  I did install Win XP but couldn't install the graphics driver because the laptop is 64 bit and the Win XP disc is 32 bit.  I'm now wondering about trying Vista again so I can have the camera software for when I'm away, but don't have a disc - it was pre-installed.

Can anyone help with either:

finding a way to install a graphics driver; or

lending me Vista Home 64 bit CD

Many thanks

Rose

[chris morris]

Why do you need the camera software?
If its just for importing the images, you would be better off with a USB
multi card reader

Chris

[Rose McGillicuddy]

I take photos in RAW format, so need the software to convert to jpeg.  I can do it with digikam and touch images up with GIMP, but am used to the camera software and Photoshop now.

I use a USB card reader to upload the photos.

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[Chris Morris]

On 05/07/12 18:55, Rose McGillicuddy wrote:
>
>
> I take photos in RAW format, so need the software to convert to jpeg.
> I can do it with digikam and touch images up with GIMP, but am used
> to the camera software and Photoshop now.
>
> I use a USB card reader to upload the photos.
> --
> Registered Linux user #386597 http://counter.li.org/

You could try Virtualbox.
I have an old version of Photoshop in a WinXP Virtualbox. I also print
all my photos from the Canon printing software via Virtualbox as well,
seeing as printing photos from linux is hopeless.

Chris

[Rose McGillicuddy]

You could try Virtualbox.
I have an old version of Photoshop in a WinXP Virtualbox. I also print all my photos from the Canon printing software via Virtualbox as well, seeing as printing photos from linux is hopeless.

Chris

Don't think I'll bother.  I can view the photos using digikam, so I'll just wait til getting home to process them.

Thanks for your ideas.  I get mine printed at Harvey Normans - too expensive doing it at home.

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[Perry Spiller]

Might be just up Chris' alley - this one.

Rather then persist with webshots or photobucket or the like, I'm wondering
if I can store a number of pix on my hosting account so I can link to them in
e-mails and forums? (I.e. [img] hostname URL/filename [/img] )

I already have jpgs on my hosting account, but they're used to serve up images
to my own web pages, only. However, I don't want something that's intended
for viewing (single or slide show) by the general weblic, unless I elect to provide
the URL to a single image, to someone.

Any straight-forward s/ware recommended?

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[Chris Morris]

I do the same thing - Just FTP them into a viewable directory on the public side of the server.
As long as you know what the filenames are you should be able to serve them as you have described.
No html or software required.

Like this
http://racepics.biz/gallery/images/
http://racepics.biz/gallery/images/Screenshot-4.png

chris