Comments | garlikmongere: Dear lazyweb

garlikmongere

Dear lazyweb

Jul 23, 2009 08:40

Everyone ever having anything to do with Vista should be slaughtered ( Read more... )

matlab, computer, vista

Comments 10

marvinalone July 23 2009, 15:35:23 UTC

Win7 RC can still be downloaded from here. I don't know if it runs Matlab, but I don't know why it wouldn't.

garlikmongere July 24 2009, 02:55:58 UTC

Matlab claims the problem with Vista to be with the user access control, but I'm not convinced that's the whole problem. There's some issue with how R13 handles the license using flexlm, supposedly, since the version I have is meant for a single computer use and not for a server and client use. I can't tell how much of the same issues will exist in Win7.

bonboard July 24 2009, 03:21:15 UTC

I've debugged FlexLM problems before, though not on Vista and mostly for products other than Matlab. I can maybe walk you through that.

garlikmongere July 24 2009, 23:24:05 UTC

The license file I have is supposedly missing a couple lines to operate as a server or something. From the only post I could find online, by someone who claimed to have successfully loaded R13 under vista. I couldn't figure out if the missing lines were license copy specific or not.

avani July 23 2009, 17:05:37 UTC

6 r13 runs just fine on linux, if it comes to that. Also, OS X upgrades have never broken Matlab. Just saying :)

garlikmongere July 24 2009, 02:44:29 UTC

But my copy of matlab is for windows. Although, if it comes down to buying a new version of matlab, I'm probably switching to linux.

bonboard July 24 2009, 00:43:05 UTC

Can you describe the "xp pro slipstreamed to include up through sp3 is insufficient" part? What kind of crazy-ass hard drive needs a Windows driver that doesn't come with Windows?

garlikmongere July 24 2009, 02:47:23 UTC

SATA, I think. The Windows help webpage about the error message just says something about raid, and not about sata, so I'm not entirely sure.

bonboard July 24 2009, 03:19:34 UTC

So, during the XP install, there is a place where you can push F6 and insert a floppy disk containing extra drivers for storage controllers, which sounds about like what you need. Have you tried installing XP? Does it bomb on the blue VGA screen before finding a hard drive partition to install to? Do you even have a floppy drive? Or a CD-ROM/DVD drive?

garlikmongere July 24 2009, 23:17:46 UTC

CD, no floppy. Although from what I read online, the drivers can be on the same install CD. If I could find the drivers. Sony appeared to only have Vista drivers for my computer.