Hi Bernd,
Yes it sucks indeed.
As I see it, there are three separate issues:
1. Moving OEM installs can be a pain
2. Lack of SATA BIOS support can be a pain
3. Restore disks can be a pain
With XP, this is all compounded by the Activation system. There are many
people complaining on the micr
Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef:
This idea of the preinstalled OS, in my humble opinion, SUCKS! (no
matter how cheap it can be for me or for Acer).
Aitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to
buy a new computer without it installed, though!
In my opinion it is good that you have the option to buy a PC with or
without the operating system.
What really sicks me is that absurd idea of the "preinstalled OS". I got
an Acer laptop, they (almost sure) charged me for the OS, but they
didn't give me the official WinXP Pro disk: it was "prei
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:06, Gerry Hickman wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> This is a fantastic operating system.
Image installed in my mind, feeble though it be :-)
A furious guy named FreeDOS kicking a very, very solemn donkey, shouting,
"Laugh, g'damit! My jokes _are_ funny!"
Sorry, definitely OT, but I h
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
The only thing you need windows for is word
I'd say that's an over-simplification, but best not to get into Windows
vs Linux on here. I'm hoping to do some "head to head" comparisons in
the coming months of Windows vs Linux, both client and server, and would
l
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:54, Gerry Hickman wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to
> > buy a new computer without it installed, though!
>
> This is true, and this is why Microsoft's dominance is perpetuated. The
> big OEMs collude with Mi
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to
> buy a new computer without it installed, though!
>
File a microsoft refund form. Then install your favorite dos and your
favorite distro and enjoy.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to
buy a new computer without it installed, though!
This is true, and this is why Microsoft's dominance is perpetuated. The
big OEMs collude with Microsoft, and Joe Average ends up with no choice.
The EU tried to
Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to
buy a new computer without it installed, though!
> Hi Mark,
>
> > You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot
> > with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP
> > installation at all and doesn't require r
Hi Mark,
You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot
with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP
installation at all and doesn't require re-installing
WindowsXP.
Hehe, I'm sure this is useful for some folks, but for me it would be
like sacrilege!
--
Gerry H
Hi Johnson:
My attempts have been very successful. The FreeDOS installer
has problems if the WindowsXP partition is FAT32...it insists
on writing a boot sector to C: no matter what. Just don't
use the installer and SYS the disk manually and copy files
over.
The procedure I wrote up is a bit MS-
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:03:58 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Mark,
>You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot
>with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP
>installation at all and doesn't require re-installing
>WindowsXP. You just put FreeDOS on a trivial amount
>of disk
You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot
with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP
installation at all and doesn't require re-installing
WindowsXP. You just put FreeDOS on a trivial amount
of disk space at the end of the drive.
I worked out a detailed proce
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:06:29 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Gerry,
>I'd been building and testing PCs using Dos622 with MSCLIENT 3.0, but
>kept runing into limitations, conflicts and lack of memory. I tried
>Win95 and Win98 boot disks instead, but things got even worse. A brand
>new server had >4Gb of m
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