From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:46:20 -0500
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Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >2. How easy is it to install?
> Red Hat 6.1 is no harder to install than Microsoft Windows 98 or 2000.

    I agree that the Red Hat installer is just as easy to use as the Win9x
installer, but it all depends on what you start with.  Most hard-drives these
days come preformatted as FAT32 (other than OEM's).  So you need to setup some
partitions and stuff.  Also, the installer is very friendly, but if I want to
add/remove OS packages, well, I never figured out how to do that other than
starting from scratch again.  And there are some weird issues with that
installer and my video card:  when it attempts to choose the 'best' resolution,
it selects 1024x768x32bit.  I wanted to use 800x600x32bit, but that wasn't on
the list of options.  In fact the only way to get a 32bit mode was to use the
'autodeciding' mode.  And any time I wanted to change the resolution, I had to
reinstall...

> >4. Does it dual-boot gracefully with DOS/Win2000/etc?
> DOS, Win98: Yes.  At LILO you type dos or linux to start.
> Win2k: Overwrites LILO on purpose.

    I've been using M$ OS's for > 5 years, and I've never had a booting issue.
I installed RH Linux for a couple of weeks in the summer and about once every 3
days, LILO would only print "LI", then halt the machine.  After it did that
once, it would never boot correctly again until I reinstalled Linux.

> >Yeah, happens in win9x too - it's really odd, especially as if you leave the
> >game with Alt-Tab, it does save and restore the screen properly.
> There ought to be a way to unbind that key.

    There is, under the properties for the shortcut, there is a section where
you can disable most of the windows keys including Alt+Tab.

> >would much prefer to use DOS
> When I load DOS from LILO, I have the BootMenu=1 in my msdos.sys which
> lets me pick 1 for Windows or 5 for DOS.

    Isn't there a DOS loader for Linux?  Couldn't you add that as a bootmenu
option and then avoid LILO altogether?

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)