The windows issue is the HAL (hardware adaptation layer). In earlier versions of NT, you could swap hardware, stick your NT CD in, boot to that CD, run "repair" and that would replace your old HAL with the right one. This went to "sometimes worked" in Win2K, and they seem to have completely disabled it in XP/2K3.
I was an NT driver developer at one point and got to see this stuff "up close and personal". The driver and HAL architecture is actually not bad - but the fact that they just abandoned efforts to make the HAL reloadable is, indeed, an example of what's wrong with closed source software... -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42028 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
