RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Windoze - Linux

no, i didn't install over the top, that is the way the computer was when i
got here (i didn't touch it mom, honest!)
i droped in toms rb floppy and dd'd the hard drive, fdisk'd it and then
installed windows to its own partition, with programs on a second partition
and an archive for back ups on a third... and another for linux. this
machine is a pentium 4, and i couldn't be less happy with it. this weekend i
am rebuilding some spare parts into a pentium 3 and putting this beast aside
for some hapless new employee. i've got a machine here i simply love, it's
a celeron 667 on the BX chipset, with a matrox vid card... what a great
machine!! oh, its also going to be my machine controller when i get the
router built.
---Dave L.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Smith [mailto:sos@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:01 PM
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Windoze - Linux


Did you install over the top? This is prone to many problems from what I
hear.
How about reformatting the disk and starting over?

Steve Smith

dlantz@... wrote:

> well, no, linux WILL boot on this machine, NO, there are no memory

problems

> with this machine. the main issues with win2000 on this machine are out

of

> my knowledge... er... i mean, when i got this job, the machine was

unstable,

> after trying to fix problem after problem, i finally decided to reload...
> now it turns out the guy i was replacing had pirated win2000, so i

installed

> win98. one of the main issues SEEMED to be that there was some strange
> upgrade that had happened from win98 to winME and then to win2000, with
> pieces of those systems still hanging around... AND it was still using the
> old filesystem! yes, ive had good luck with vmware, but with 98lite
> (running the 95 shell)
> the other bad experience i had with win2000 was when i was sent away for
> training. the classroom was full of win2000 computers in pentium 3's...

the

> instructor went on and on about win2000's stability, but 2 hours into it,

my

> computer froze up solid, as it did two more times before that class was
> over. NOW, this only happened to one other person, out of probably 15
> people... so i guess that is more stable then win98! my experience with

NT

> took years off my life, so i dont want to revisite--gotta work now---Dave

L.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Elson [mailto:elson@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 11:20 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Windoze - Linux
>
> dlantz@... wrote:
>
> > just to add a small note (my 2 cents) windows 95 is probably the most
> > stable of the lot... BUT is missing some stuff that windows 98 has. the
> > best luck for stability i have found is running 98LITE, which gives you
> the
> > option of not installing stuff in windows98, and you can also install

the

> 95
> > shell instead of the 'web-intigrated' desktop, which is a source for

alot

> of
> > the instablity. find it at www.98lite.com . windows2000 WAS on this
> > computer here at work, after struggling with it going into 'debug' mode
> and
> > never comming out 5 times a day (not exagerating here), i wiped the

drive

> > and installed 98... (sigh) which is now becoming unstable as well...

many

> > people have told me 2000 is much more stable then 98 or ME... but all of
> my
> > expeiences (a someewhat limited number) have been bad. stability, with
> > windows ease of installation? look into LINDOWS, at www.lindows.com it
> > should come out early next year. also try wine (stands for wine is not

an

> > emulator) or vmware or win4lin... all good options to use microsoft
> > software, or hardware that currently only works with windows--- OK, that
> was
> > more like 5 cents... but thats ok----Dave L.
>
> My guess is Linux won't even boot on your machine. if Windows 2000
> is unstable, you are almost guaranteed to have hardware (probably
> memory) problems. I am running a demanding CAD package in Win2000
> on a Linux system using VMware - it is very impressive, and the whole
> contraption is stable, too!
>
> Jon
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