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Install and run a node on Windows 8? #104

Open atc93 opened 3 years ago

atc93 commented 3 years ago

Hi folks,

Since I have a spare laptop running Windows 8 (and way passed the free upgrade period to Windows 10), I wonder:

is there a way to install and run Pi node on Windows 8?

Thanks!

nicolae788 commented 3 years ago

If that windows8 it's correctly licensed the license will pass to win 10. But no less than 8 gb of ram, no spinning hdd for a good win10 experience. -------- Original message --------From: atc93 @.>Date: Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 04:42To: pi-node/instructions @.>Cc: Subscribed @.***>Subject: [pi-node/instructions] Install and run a node on Windows 8? (#104) Hi folks, Since I have a spare laptop running Windows 8 (and way passed the free upgrade period to Windows 10), I wonder: is there a way to install and run Pi node on Windows 8? Thanks!

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browolf commented 3 years ago

You can't run node on win8 because you need windows subsystem for linux which is only available on win10

brokenisuseless commented 3 years ago

Well you can because I have it running on windows 8 with virtualbox, with a linux host,so what I have is a debian host running windows 8, which also has virtualbox running docker these directions will work on windows8 and probably 7 too https://github.com/pi-node/instructions/wiki/(EN)-Windows-10-Home-Edition-OLD.-PLEASE-USE-NEW!! , the new way would not run on windows 10 using virtualbox or libvirt, this old way did but the virtualbox gui did not work, because windows 10 didnt like it, so I went to 8 and everything worked.

brokenisuseless commented 3 years ago

You can't run node on win8 because you need windows subsystem for linux which is only available on win10

wrong