Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

[Trevor Farrell]

"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:

> And, FWIW, we have a computer that would NOT install Windows (it
> wouldn't recognize the CD-ROM at install time [sound familiar?]), but
> Linux went on just fine.  Since there is only one Windows distribution,
> and this is primarily a game machine,  we wound up having to replace the
> hardware.
>

Yes, been there, done that!  We just wrote off 6 older pentiums because,
although they worked perfectly under Win 3.11, they had a hdd controller that
win9x won't talk reliably to (big red X in device manager - no error messages
or warnings, just frequent lockup and other glitches - at least if Linux
doesn't like it, it tells you!) I might try putting Linux on one of them one
day - just to see...