Re: More YaST Questions
- From: imotgm <imotgm_REM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:26:44 GMT
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:45:25 +0000, Jonah wrote:
>
> Trouble is not knowing what you did to break whatever you have a vague
> idea is broken or if indeed it was actually broken in the first place
> or maybe its your mind that's broken and turned to mush and you are a
> gibbering idiot and the wife thinks you are totally barking anyway not
> to mention the dog.
>
> Aaaaarrrggggggggggggg!
>
> Jonah
Take the meds, Jonah, take the meds. It will all be clear, then. ;-)
With regards to your statement about reinstalling Win2K, I rebuilt my
computer last March, (New mother-board, graphics card, CPU, memory, and
power supply - the only things left from the original, are the case, and
hard drives) and last Saturday, for the first time, inserted a Win2K hard
drive from the original machine into one of the drive bays. I never
thought it would boot, as M$ tries to marry the OS to the machine, and the
machine is virtually new. It didn't.
I decided to do a Linux installation on the drive, But it was on a DVD,
and the old DVD-ROM was on the old machine, (in a different case - can't
waste usable parts). When I put the DVD-ROM into the case with all the new
components, Win2k booted, and started going nuts, looking for drivers, so,
for play purposes, I installed all the drivers for the new M-B, graphics
card, and monitor. It took over four hours, just to load the drivers. It
kept losing track of where it was, and re-discovering the same hardware,
over and over, and insisting I reinstall the same drivers that I had
already installed, just minutes before, and rebooting after each one.
Aaaaarrrggggggggggggg!, hardly covers the frustration. In the end, though
I haven't used Win2K for years, the old Win2K, in the new/rebuilt machine,
is as fully functional as a Win2K installation can be, and it seems the
only thing it was "married" to, was the DVD-ROM that it was installed from
originally, or at least was repaired from, the last time that happened.
For folks who still like, or need, their Windows, and do massive rebuilds
on their machines, that might be a useful piece of information, to
forestall having to do a complete reinstall of their Win* OS, and all
their apps. Win98SE, on the same drive, can't handle the 2GB of RAM in the
new/rebuilt machine, at all, and refuses to even try to boot.
For comparison, while I was at it, I installed both SUSE 10.0, and
Mandriva 2006, and neither took longer than an hour, complete with all the
apps, and just booted up, ready to configure the desktop. Not to rub salt
in a wound, Yast works fine here.
--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."
.
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