On Thu, 28 Oct 1999,Tom Brinkman wrote:
| On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
| > Yup, when you re-install Win98, it's gonna wipe the MBR, and LILO won't be
| > there any more. Make sure you have a boot dosk if you keep LILO in the MBR so
| > you can get back into Linux to fix it.
| >
| > Ernie
|
| I was gonna stay out of this, but Oh Well. There's a coupl'a
| things I just don't understand what the big deal's about. One, is
| LU's aversion to re-booting. The other is Window's users afinity
| for re-installs.
Many Linux users choose Linux simply because they do NOT have to re-start the
system each time they make a change in it as seems to be necessary in Win9x.
This is considered an advantage as well as a time saver. As for the Win users
affinity for re-installs, well when something goes wrong - as it all too
frequently seems to do - and the user can not figgure out how to fix it, the
easiest option is a re-do.
Ernie
|
| I was a W95 beta tester, but they wouldn't accept me for W98.
| So I downloaded various builds thru 1721 (RC1), mostly from Russian
| ftp sites. Now before y'all chastize me for WaReZ, when W98 was
| released, I bought a legitimate copy, build 1998. I just managed
| to have W98 for 8 months before they released it ;-)
|
| My point in all this ? My oldest HDD is my current C:\
| drive. It's had several beta builds of W98 on it and now the
| retail version, all installed over the preceding build. That HDD's
| been in two different systems since W98 was first installed about
| 1/98. I'm only waiting on a new motherboard to arrive, and then
| it'll be in the 3rd new system. I don't plan to re-install either
| W98 or Linux.... and I'll bet'cha I don't have any big problems
| either. Yeah, I know, 'famous last words' :)
|
| < pontificate on ;>
| I approach computer problems in this order, 1) I'm doin
| somethin wrong 2) the application is the problem 3) it's
| a hardware problem 4) it's an operating system problem. This
| order seems to serve me the best. It appears to me that those
| that have the most computer problems, attack them in _exactly_
| the reverse order.
| --
| .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
|
| > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Seth Gibson wrote:
| > | Greetings all! Im about to wipe my Win32 partition and reinstall
everything. .
| > | .is there anything i should be aware of, ie lilo issues or anything of that
| > | nnature? Thanks all! --
| > |
| > | Seth Gibson
| > | www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
| > | members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction)
| > | Aggression Takes Its Toll.
