Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
I have ME on one of the computers here and it sucks something fierce. I had in mind three reasons for using WinME: 1. The new mpg encoding 2. Driver updates so I wouldn't have to search around for them 3. The registry roll back feature. It just completely fails on 3 -- I get a damn dll error everytime I try to roll it back. 2. isn't really that compelling a reason to have it. And 1. ... well I haven't used 1 yet but I can't imagine it not crashing by the time the movie is done being encoded. Same old MS ... all feature no stability. I saw a demo of WinME on the TV the other day. He couldn't show most of the media features because the media player crashed and started looping. Does anyone remember the "Grand Introduction" of Win98, where BillyG himself demonstrated Win98 to all the top dogs of industry? Within minutes, the demo machine went into BSOD mode, and flatly refused to reboot... Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
I have ME on one of the computers here and it sucks something fierce. I had in mind three reasons for using WinME: 1. The new mpg encoding 2. Driver updates so I wouldn't have to search around for them 3. The registry roll back feature. It just completely fails on 3 -- I get a damn dll error everytime I try to roll it back. 2. isn't really that compelling a reason to have it. And 1. ... well I haven't used 1 yet but I can't imagine it not crashing by the time the movie is done being encoded. Same old MS ... all feature no stability. "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Now, I know some people who use ME and think that it works just fine. Maybe your friend is having some configuration problems...Just a guess. -Original Message- From: Doug McGarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question No, you DO NOT want to install ME on anything. It is far inferior to W98 by everybody who has tried it, and it crashes frequently. Don't just take my word for it, check Consumer Reports and the info at ZDnet or whatever the correct name is. One of my compadres at work has decided to put ME on his machine. He said it crashed a lot. He was unable to even boot the machine today! I can't believe that MS was so stupid as to create this mess, but they did. MS may be inept, but they're very seldom stupid. --doug, wa2say At 07:55 09/19/2000 -0400, you wrote: Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
RE: [newbie] Dual-boot question
Now, I know some people who use ME and think that it works just fine. Maybe your friend is having some configuration problems...Just a guess. -Original Message- From: Doug McGarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question No, you DO NOT want to install ME on anything. It is far inferior to W98 by everybody who has tried it, and it crashes frequently. Don't just take my word for it, check Consumer Reports and the info at ZDnet or whatever the correct name is. One of my compadres at work has decided to put ME on his machine. He said it crashed a lot. He was unable to even boot the machine today! I can't believe that MS was so stupid as to create this mess, but they did. MS may be inept, but they're very seldom stupid. --doug, wa2say At 07:55 09/19/2000 -0400, you wrote: Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
the correct name is. One of my compadres at work has decided to put ME on his machine. He said it crashed a lot. He was unable to even boot the machine today! I Probably while doing its "maintenance" to keep it from crashing :-) can't believe that MS was so stupid as to create this mess, but they did. MS may be inept, but they're very seldom stupid. In fairness, aren't all released copies considered beta at this point or has it officially been released? I'm losing track and like the feeling :-) Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie] Dual-boot question
I believe that ME is a real release at this point but, who cares. It is just a crutch until I become proficient at Linux. And, it's for my wife too... :o) -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question the correct name is. One of my compadres at work has decided to put ME on his machine. He said it crashed a lot. He was unable to even boot the machine today! I Probably while doing its "maintenance" to keep it from crashing :-) can't believe that MS was so stupid as to create this mess, but they did. MS may be inept, but they're very seldom stupid. In fairness, aren't all released copies considered beta at this point or has it officially been released? I'm losing track and like the feeling :-) Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
yes you can, either leave linux W/ LILO or GRUB as a boot loader on the first hard drive and be sure to ad WinME to your boot loader and tell it where to find Windows.or I have seen some people just switch the hard drive that boots whenever they want to run Windowsnot very practical but still works. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 In simple terms - yes. But the windows installation for some strange archaiac and magical reason closely related to monotonic gatesism dictates that windows _MUST_ be on the first hard disk. You would need to change you existing drive to either primary slave or to the secondary IDE channel. And that again depends on your particular motherboard. Help??? Nah - probably not eh??? Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And 23:59:59 ahead of most of the rest of the world
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I think that I would choose option 1 over option 2, definately! Thanks, Tom. Now, that i know that I can do it, how is the question. I've never done this before. Any good documentation laying around? Any suggestions?? -Original Message- From: Thomas Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question yes you can, either leave linux W/ LILO or GRUB as a boot loader on the first hard drive and be sure to ad WinME to your boot loader and tell it where to find Windows.or I have seen some people just switch the hard drive that boots whenever they want to run Windowsnot very practical but still works. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? You CAN dual-boot between two different hard drives. However, Windoze expects to be on the first drive, and gets decidedly miffed if placed anywhere else. Linux, on the other hand, can go anywhere. Your best bet would be to put Windoze on hda and Linux on hdb. Just remember to re-install lilo (or whatever boot-loader you use) on the boot sector of hda, and point it to Linux on hdb. You may also need to modify /etc/fstab if such a move screws other mount points. Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
Chris , If you know how to install second hard drive and load operating system you should have no problem. You will need to use some kind of boot management (lilo perhaps?) and all should be well - Original Message - From: Kelly, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Newbie' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 12:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Dual-boot question Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
John Rye escribió: In simple terms - yes. But the windows installation for some strange archaiac and magical reason closely related to monotonic gatesism dictates that windows _MUST_ be on the first hard disk. Ejem... only windows' boot has to be in the first hard disk; i've windows98 installed on my second SCSI disk with no problems at all ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
Joan Tur wrote: John Rye escribió: In simple terms - yes. But the windows installation for some strange archaiac and magical reason closely related to monotonic gatesism dictates that windows _MUST_ be on the first hard disk. Ejem... only windows' boot has to be in the first hard disk; i've windows98 installed on my second SCSI disk with no problems at all ;-) Not sure if that's an 'opps' or not - I run IDE drives and for some reason this system won't run windows unless it's on first drive. Might be peculiar to the version of w95 I run... Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And 23:59:59 ahead of most of the rest of the world
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
Kelly, You can do what you've mentioned and you shouldn't have any trouble at all in doing so. When I first started using Linux that's very much the way I did it. I had Windows in one drive and Linux on another. Everything booted just fine and both OS's were just happy as clams. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote: Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
At 07:55 AM 9/19/00 -0400, Chris Kelly wrote: Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? I installed a 2d hd installed 6.0 on it. Dual boots just fine.
Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
you can but i would pull the other hard drive out and use the new one as a primary to install windows then after your done swap it out and put it in as the secondary, then you just have to add the commands in your boot loader to the second os, although im not exactly sure what the system comands are, windows may get confused because of the hard drive label and the fact that it set up an mbr partition for its booting purposes. its the only solution i know due to the fact that microsoft has recently altered the install program to search for alternate partitions such as the 2fs format when it finds it it prompts you to delete the partition or it will go no further
