Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic) [nowback on]
After having been whupped by that game numerous times, and never having met anyone who played and won, I have 2 questions for your friend: 1) Did anyone ever actually WIN that game? 2) Does he program for Microsoft now? sorry, low blow, but I am STILL pissed at that game. Ken PS Amiga RULZ! (the rest of the world is still playing ketchup) PPS Mandatory ON TOPIC: I bunged my main home computer (MDK8.2) when I tried to install w2k [DONT GO THERE!]. Since I managed to make it even worse, I am now going to a clean-sheet install. I will be doing MDK 8.2, Win98, and W2K. I have 3 separate drives (6gb, 20gb, and 30gb). Any recommendations for install order, and partition schema? 8.2 ran just ducky, but is there justification to go to 9.0? THX in advance On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 15:47, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 08:34, Ken Hawkins wrote: play a game called star-trek; with an E for the Enterprise, a K for the Klingons, an * for photon torpedoes, etc etc. Ken I know the guy who wrote that one... it was written originally on paper tape ... and lots of scotch tape. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic) [nowback on]
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 12:20, Ken Hawkins wrote: PPS Mandatory ON TOPIC: I bunged my main home computer (MDK8.2) when I tried to install w2k [DONT GO THERE!]. Since I managed to make it even worse, I am now going to a clean-sheet install. I will be doing MDK 8.2, Win98, and W2K. I have 3 separate drives (6gb, 20gb, and 30gb). Any recommendations for install order, and partition schema? 8.2 ran just ducky, but is there justification to go to 9.0? The order to install OSes is: Win9x, then NT/2000/XP, then Linux. The reason is that Win 9x is too stupid to recognize multiple-OS installations, and will automatically overwrite the boot sector of your PC during installation. This is easy to fix in Linux, just boot from the CD or floppy, and re-run LILO. But if you're doing fresh installs anyway, then you might as well just do it right the first time :-) WinNT/2000/XP will recognize an installation of Win9x, so it will overwrite the boot sector, but it will give you a dual-boot option so you can choose Win9x or WinNT/2000. Finally, Mandrake (or any Linux) will recognize all of your partitions, and will correctly allow you to multi-boot all of your installed OSes, as it should be. For partition schemas, it's really hard to say because I don't know your filesystem and security requirements. I generally try to install the OS on a separate partition from the apps, and the apps on a separate partition from the data, thus I use 3 partitions *per Windows OS*, and even more than that for Linux (generally /var, /home, /boot and /usr get their own partitions, and I leave the rest as one partition, thus 5 Linux partitions -- YMMV). I also prefer to use NTFS on all WinNT/2000 partitions. But doing so will mean that Win 9x can't read your data partition, and Linux can read but can't write your data partition (actually, can Linux read from NTFS 5? Maybe not, maybe only NTFS 4 ...). Is this a problem? You tell me. If you need the data accessible to all OSes, then put it on a FAT32 partition, preferably a different from the partition that Win 9x is installed on. If Win9x is only for gaming, then keep your data on something mutually readable for Win2k and Linux, probably requiring FAT32 if you want Linux to have write access to the data. I can't speak to your question about Mandrake 9.0, but I plan on upgrading sometime after it's been officially released, maybe 6 months (and preferably an additional point release, to 9.1). -- Dave Sherman| They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety | deserve neither liberty nor safety. |- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic) [nowback on]
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 10:20, Ken Hawkins wrote: After having been whupped by that game numerous times, and never having met anyone who played and won, I have 2 questions for your friend: 1) Did anyone ever actually WIN that game? His version yes.. it says You won ... wanna play again. 2) Does he program for Microsoft now? Never did... it was a BBS version that predates M$'s version. Originally ran over Arpa Net sorry, low blow, but I am STILL pissed at that game. Ken PS Amiga RULZ! (the rest of the world is still playing ketchup) PPS Mandatory ON TOPIC: I bunged my main home computer (MDK8.2) when I tried to install w2k [DONT GO THERE!]. Since I managed to make it even worse, I am now going to a clean-sheet install. I will be doing MDK 8.2, Win98, and W2K. I have 3 separate drives (6gb, 20gb, and 30gb). Any recommendations for install order, and partition schema? 8.2 ran just ducky, but is there justification to go to 9.0? THX in advance On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 15:47, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 08:34, Ken Hawkins wrote: play a game called star-trek; with an E for the Enterprise, a K for the Klingons, an * for photon torpedoes, etc etc. Ken I know the guy who wrote that one... it was written originally on paper tape ... and lots of scotch tape. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
