"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote:
>
> > stable manner. But you have to admitt that they have done a great job with
the
> > installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now if they'd just stop trying
to
Gee I hate to knock you off your soap box, but just about ALL new mother
boards support the self-same boot of CD Rom to install Linux AND Win9X.
Risking more Flames here...Win98 is MORE user friendly after first install,
all most all components ARE installed WITH their driver's.
Now untill I learn the method to Linux's madness for installing programs and
WHERE the heck they are after that, I will continue using Win98 as my primary
OS. But to be fair Linux has many points in it's favor, the foremost one is
that it is a free OS, and more important...very stable.
IMO
Jaguar
>
> Actually I think I WON'T "admit" that. :) If you want to completely
> reinstall Windows 95 (I assume it's similar for Win98), first you have to
> make a DOS boot disk and put your DOS CD-ROM drivers on it (how many
> newbies know how to do that? and how easy is it to do that if you don't
> already have a working system?), then boot with that and run the install
> from the CD. The actual installation program is simple, yeah--the only
> options you're being given are which programs install, so it would have
> required a lot of creativity to make it NOT user-friendly.
>
> And then here's a common experience I had after installation: You boot
> Windows for the first time, and it starts trying to install some other
> stuff, from the CD, BEFORE IT BOTHERS LOADING YOUR CD-ROM DRIVERS, so it's
> trying to install extra stuff from the CD before it bothers getting the
> CD-ROM drive working, and thus it can't. There are two ways around this
> (installing DOS CD-ROM drivers for the first boot, or copying the whole CD
> to the HD and installing it from there) and I don't think either is
> readily apparent to a newbie. A newbie will just sit there and wonder why
> the hell it's not working like it's supposed to.
>
> On the other hand, if you're installing Mandrake you just boot from the CD
> and bam you're in a very simple, straight-forward, user-friendly
> installation program that explains itself pretty well. RedHat's and
> Mandrake's installation programs are very easy. The very first time I
> ever touched Linux, I installed RedHat 5.2 without reading any
> instructions or anything and the installation was a breeze. And I've read
> plenty of reviews saying Caldera's installation is even easier.
>
> -Tom
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