Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/04/06/00:08:39
In article <00040515484001 DOT 06764 AT sparky DOT lineo DOT com>, stevja AT lineo DOT com says...
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>Windows 95 is a massive pain to install... (almost harder + trickier
>than Linux) When I installed, for some strange reason, it didn't
>install CD-Rom drivers, and so when it 'boots windows for the >
>first time' and is trying to install all of these drivers, my
>CDROM doesn't work, and I can't install anything.
Your CD-ROM is most likly one that Windows does not have bult in
support for. Try making your hard drive bootable with DOS
(anything) and install the CD-ROM drivers for DOS and make sure
it works. Then load Windows. If your CD-ROM is still
unrecognised you can just um-rem the CD-ROM driver in config sys
and reboot. You CD-ROM should now work in Windows. You *may* be
able to then rem out the CD-ROM driver in config.sys and still
have the CD-ROM work.
>Also, if you have a 350 mhz processor or faster, windows
>wont boot at all until you update some files.
And you can't update the files if Windows won't boot, I found
that out when I upgraded my CPU to an AMD K62-450. I had to put
the old CPU back in to do the update and then swap CPOUs again.
>> Applixware and StarOffice are freebeerware IIRC.
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>But they would still have to learn the new interface.
Staroffice for Windows and for Linux look and work the same,
just like Netscape.
>Windows NT makes a horrible server.
I guess I have been doing something wrong for the last five years because I
have been using NT 3.51 and NT 4.00 for mail, web RADIUS accounting. I have
only had to reboot when I have made software upgrades and once when when I
replaced a hard drive that had a howling bearing. One of my servers has been
runnibg for well over a year and not restarted, I guess that is a horrible
server. I am not advocating M$, I am advocating "If it ain't broke don't fix
it". My DNS runs on Linux.
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