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Why I dont use XP
Calum:
hey, good point, but can't you still install winXP on a fat32 partition?
and what would be the correct procedure if you had an XP machine and you wanted to wipe the filesystem off leaving only free space?
dishawjp:
Haven't had to work with XP yet, though I've been told that I'll be down... err... upgraded to XP at work in a few months. Hell, I've just about learned to live with Win98 as a workstation and soon it'll be XP. We have a new IT director who must be on the M$ payroll. Got rid of our good Sun and Digital AlphaVAX servers and converted everything to Win2k servers. No more SunOS5 or OpenVMS. Of course now the network is down regularly. If I didn't still have access to my personal RedHat6.1 server I think that I'd go totally nuts.
As broken as the Win9x OS's are, at least they were still essentially DOS boxes and could be beaten into relative submission through DOS and regedit. This new XP looks to be even worse than WinNT.
Just a quick question for all you experts on this forum... I do need to run some Windows software. it's my job, not a personal preference. Do any of you have direct experience with the Lindows OS? Is it possible to have a good, stable, reliable and rational OS (without having to use a WINE emulator which I've heard can be slow and sometimes unreliable) that will allow me to run software written for Windows?
Oh, about icons. I just have 4 on my Win9x boxes. Main (was my computer), DOS (to open more command line windows), Deleted (was recycle bin), and Network (formerly network neighborhood). I do everything else from the command line. Have 70 or so .bat files in a pathed \batch directory open programs and stuff.
If this is posted in the wrong place or I've stepped on any toes, please cut me a litle slack. it is my first post here.
Calum:
hiya, welcome to the forums, don't you find DOS a little stilted though? i suspect the emulated DOS you can expect n yr new XP computer will be even more so.
voidmain:
Where'd the damn reply button go? Anyway, you don't need to use any stupid M$ format/fdisk utility to wipe out your drive. Linux comes with better ones. When you stick your RedHat (or any other distro) CD in and boot, you can blow away and recreate the existing partitions however you want.
Calum:
okay, i've just never done it that way, that's all. i have a mate with a fucked copy of winXP. his registration has run out, even though he has paid for it, and he just wants to get it off his machine and put a dual windows98/mandrake8.2 install on instead. Do you mean this can be done purely from the mandrake CDs? he is not to tech literate, so the dual boot thing may be the sticking point. I was going to give him a DOS boot disk and a disk with some dos utilities for formatting and partitioning, along with the mandrake CDs, should i not bother confusing him with the DOS disks?
[ June 06, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
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