<<Thus, I decided to abandon the effort and install windows 2000 with > cygwin. While trying to reformat my hard drive to NTFS, I managed to > screw it up so completely that the only thing I could do to get running > again was run an 'NSA-strength' data destroyer boot floppy over the > entire disk. Took 87 hours, btw. > I installed win2000 on a FAT 32 disk. Worked fine for about two days; > when I tried to install the latest service pack though, the thing started > hickupping; when I installed IE 5.5, it died. Hurray.
Is your hardware compatible with Win2k? I am running it with no problems. I find Win2k to be pretty stable/usable for a MS OS.>> I did too before I tried ADSL or any upgrade of the OS. Anyway, it should be compatible as it's all standard components which are neither too old nor too new - the fact that SuSe recognizes all of it automatically except for my graphics tablet (which does work btw) and MS joystick should say enough.... <<> So, now I'm running the ugly but at least working windows 98 again..... yuck. 98 sucks>> I only have to look at it for e-mail. Other than that, I run cygwin... anyhow, my ISP/employer is thinking about putting one of their backup servers in my house (you know, website backup in case of fire)...which should also leave me with a 100baseT-like permanent connection for my home PC. Only catch here is that I'll be forced to run Red Hat 6.2 on it...something I can live with =) Then again, it's probably never gonna happen ;/ cheers, Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
