If you are lucky enough to have the "right hardware" that may
happen to be correct. I, on the other hand had "windoze crippled"
hardware that I didn't know was "windows crippled" and had to
patch, work around, or replace. So the "learning curve" is double
if you fall into that catagory. I must stay in 6.1 till I learn more, and
buy more hardware to move up to the "new and improved" version.
Vern
PS I'm gathering and studing all I can on the kernel (which looks to
be a life's work in itself) so I can "build" my own "custom" kernel.
Till then I have a fully functional 6.1 system!
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> Trevor....I have mdk 7.0 running (as near as I can tell)
> flawlessly on three machines. At first one of the three would
> not install 7.0, but 6.1 had installed just fine on it. So I
> changed the ide cdrom drive to a new one and that solved the
> problem. But on my main personal system, where mdk 7.0
> installed and runs fine, BeOS will not boot without a floppy and
> the sound card outputs a constant stream of static (needs to
> have the speakers physically unplugged while running BeOS). So
> I believe your allegation, "BUT, it proved you can write a
> hassle free installer THAT WORKS!", is not correct. It's more
> accurate to say that some installers work well in some
> situations and other installers work well in other situations.
>
> I understand that you are frustrated, but that's because your
> particular combination of factors led to a problematic
> installation/setup experience with mdk 7.0-2, much like my
> combination of factors led to my bad experience with BeOS. In
> the past I've also had a very bad experience when upgrading from
> Win95 to Win98. I couldn't get my ATI video card to work at all
> except at 640x480x16 colors. At least till I did a complete new
> bare hard drive install, that is. Above all, enjoy.
>
> Alan
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