On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:04:19 -0800, Randy Goldenberg wrote:
>> I have a Pentium 120.
>... A completel re-install does nothing.. same
>> exact error. Any ideas?
Yep. quit using windoz. I use DR-DOS 7 from Caldera.com most
of the time cause it boots to the file menu in 22 seconds and
dials the isp with Arachne in a total of 35. I live in a remote
rural area with flakey power, and the worst thing that it will
do is leave a locked file in the arachne browser which I usually
erase. The advantage of windoz is spozed to be multitasking.
but if I want a fax or whatever running in the background, I'd
spend a couple hundred for a dedicated 486 to do that, and run
drdos 7 on a 586 class machine, which really screams on handwired
assembly code like drdos. changing menus from email to surfing
or file management happen gonzo faster than win 9x on limited
hardware.
For fancier stuff like digital cameras, SST ordering, etc. I
installed another 3.2 gig HD and put MANDRAKE Linux on it; that's
the one that ordinary users can install on all machines, whereas
REDHAT is an exercise in self control and endurance.
when I want to take digital images off the camera or whatever,
I use the CMOS to turn on the primary (linux) drive. Linux, like
windoz takes about 4-5 minutes to come up, but if you are dedicated
to Netscape is the only way to go. You will find as well that you
dont havta re-install Netscape every few weeks from sabotage code
that Gates has put on your win 9x OS.
Of course both OSes are immune to the increasingly popular win 9x
viruses. Nor do you havta defrag alla time because of more rational
file management. Furthermore, crashes of any kind on either drdos or
Linux are rare, and if you do have one, it's duck soup to use each HD
to back up the other to restore with having trashed system files.
uncopywritten- do what you will with it.
-- Arachne V1.68, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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