Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/04/11/17:49:36
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> In article <00040515484001 DOT 06764 AT sparky DOT lineo DOT com>, stevja AT lineo DOT com says...
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> 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.
I got it to work... sorry for troubling you about it. I didn't intend my
comment to be a cry for help.
> >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.
What I did, is I installed the update on a computer with a processor less than
350 Mhz and took note of the files it updated, (which will all fit on a disk)
then copied them on to the screwed windows in dos and reset and it worked.
The files were something like ios.vxd, scsiport.??? and some others. The bugfix
tells you when you first start it.
> >> 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.
What I meant, is that Word Perfect/MS Word doesn't look like StarOffice, and
since most people don't use StarOffice, it would be a little interesting to
move over to linux.
> >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.
MS NT works for some people, but for big servers and stuff, you can't restart
your computer for anything. (Unless you want a lot of trouble.)
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