Message-ID: <38EBF6E3.74C5C10A@hotmail.com> From: Andrew Hakman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: MICROSOFT has Bought Over Linus Torvalds!! References: <00040515484001 DOT 06764 AT sparky DOT lineo DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 41 Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 02:33:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.13.16.203 X-Trace: typhoon.mbnet.mb.ca 954988437 142.13.16.203 (Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:33:57 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:33:57 CDT Organization: MBnet Networking Inc. To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > >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. Also, if you > have a 350 mhz processor or faster, windows >wont boot at all until you update > some files. Windows 98 was just a pain to install. I had >it crashing for odd > reasons, on 1 of 4 machines. This was really great. I'm not sure of >windows 2000, > never used it before > I have seen this happen many times, but only on certainn systems (I haven't yet > figured out what exactly causes it). The only way I can figure out how to get > around it is to have your CD Rom drivers on your preformated hard drive, then > between restarts in the install (new question: why do you have to restart like 3 > times for win98 setup?) press F8 and keep checking the autoexec.bat and config.sys > to make sure "windows setup" hasn't REMed those lines. As for win2000, I have the Beta 2195 (isn't that the same build as the actual release?) and it is a lot more stable than 9x, but some peculiar things happen - vb6 runs incorrectly and shuts itself down in ONE ACCOUNT ONLY, MINE, log in as administrator, or admin (for my Netware Server), or my dad's account - it doesn't matter what permissions the account has, VB will work, except in mine. When programs crash (like the above mentioned Visual Basic), they seem to go down a little more graceful, and a restart isn't ncecessary at all. Usually just running the program again (or logging into another account) and it will run just fine. > > >I don't know what BSOD means. That would be the infamous Blue Screen Of Death - easiest way to get one - on a win9x (problem doesn't occur in any version of NT) using a web browser (hopefully Netscape) surf to file://c:\con\con\con Sorry if the formatting of this is very weird - just upgraded to Netscape 4.72, and seem to have to restart now. Andrew Hakman