W7 on W2K as dual boot experience?

I never bothered with Vista and rather leave my XP machine alone (the wife messes it up enough :) ).

Has anyone tried to install W7 on a W2K machine? Anything I need to consider?

Cheers
KGG

Microsoft.com > Download the Windows 7 Beta
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...-download.aspx[quote]Minimum recommended specs call for:

• 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
  
  
• 1 GB of system memory
  
  
• 16 GB of available disk space
  
  
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)
  
  
• DVD-R/W Drive
  
  
• Internet access (to download the Beta and get updates)

As with all MS minimum specs, I'd advise doubling everything unless you really want to spend 3 hours waiting for Notepad to open :D

Ditto.

WEllll... thanks for the min req's guys - I read those as well...

My post was more relating to experience installing W7 on a W2K machine.
Anyone in this regards ?

Msi- KT4V mobo
2500 Barton - 1.8 GHz
768 MB of ram
GF2 32 MB AGP video card.

Takes a long while to boot, but does fine after that.

I looked into installing W7 via a virtual machine and found several links (VMWare, M$ versions etc). However, all seem to require an OS of XP or newer.
Does anyone know of a VM app that runs already under W2K?

In a word no. Virtualisation has really only become seriously viable with the advent of more powerful hardware, and because Win2000 generally runs on older machines, I don't think they ever bothered writing the necessary drivers for it.

I tell a lie, VMWare Workstation, which is what I use mostly, apparently will run happily enough on Win200 SP4. It is $ware, though worth every penny IMO - it makes all the others look like toys.

Here's the manual, so you can see for youself:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ws65_manual.pdf

When you say Win2k machine...what exactly do you mean?
Isn't it a regular ol computer that happens to have Windows 2000 installed on it?

Does it meet or exceed the min requirements fro Win 7?

Windows 2000 Professional minimum system requirements:

• 133 MHz or more Pentium microprocessor (or equivalent).
• 32 megabytes (MB) of RAM is the minimum supported. 64 MB is the recommended minimum
• 2 gigabyte (GB) hard disk that has 650 MB of free space
• VGA or higher-resolution monitor
• Keyboard
• Mouse or compatible pointing device (optional)
• CD or DVD drive
• High-density 3.5-inch disk drive, unless your CD drive supports starting the Setup program from a CD

System requirements for Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304297

No kidding? :D

133 MHz vs 1 GHz

Quite a difference.

Right? And, 32MB vs 1GB. (32 is the square root of 1,024. :))

It's a "regular old puter" running W2K PRO. And yes it meets the min specs (see my sig)
:)
KGG