Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/04/06/18:25:27
Richard Sanders wrote:
> In article <00040515484001 DOT 06764 AT sparky DOT lineo DOT com>, stevja AT lineo DOT com says...
> >
> --- snip ---
> >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.
> >
> >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.
Novell servers are also really stable - I have had a 3.12 (and now 4.1) novell
server running for 2 years now, and have never had to reboot once because the
software screwed up (same as above, only for maintanence or upgrades) When I
first upgraded to 4.1, I didn't have the right lisence disk right away, and when
I loaded the print server, it tried to log into the tree, the print server
crashed horribally, but the rest of the server still ran like nothing happened.
Imagine if windows 9x was like that! Wow...
I also have an NT at a remote location that I use for dialing to the internet at
home (I'm too cheap to buy cable, dsl, or a pay-for dial up connection, but I'm
working on a little plan that should see 10Mbps internet comming to my house
straight from where I work in a year or so when I have time to build it) and
have never had to restart it. A few weeks ago, it had a tape drive in it, and
the software for it would always crash, but the server kept on going.
Andrew
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