Setting up a home environment

• Kenneth.Fisher

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  May 12, 2012 at 9:59 am

  #261280

  I'm trying to use an old HP laptop to set up a playground environment at home. I want to put at least 2008 Developer with room for 2012 Developer. If I can I want to put more than 1 instance of each. I don't know if I have room for it but I would love to set up a domain server.

  Does anyone know of a good walkthrough to get the environment set up? I realize I'm somewhat limited given the specs. so any suggestions would be appreciated.

  Here are the specs for the laptop.

  2 Drives

  139 gb

  10 gb (I think this is a logical drive so could probably be rolled into the other one)

  3gb RAM

  Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz

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• Ron McCullough

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  May 12, 2012 at 6:17 pm

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  I think you should read the following:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506.aspx

  Pay partcular attention to the operating system requierments for SQL 2012

  If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

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