Installing Windows software

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 at 11:18, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> I have an old sacrificial machine in the corner but I don't know if it will support modern Windows.

Not enough info. Make/model/spec?

> Whichever way, I assume I will need to find an installation copy of the current version of Windows (10? 11? 12?).

No Win12 exists yet. Win 11 needs a TPM2 chip on the motherboard
although this can be circumvented.

Win10 runs on anything with 4GB of RAM or more. Both 32-bit and 64-bit
versions are available here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

(Note: choose the correct region.)

If your testbed has 8GB RAM, or anything over 4, use 64-bit.

Ventoy makes it trivially easy to make a bootable USB. Just dd-ing the
file to a key won't work.

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