Great ! Great ! I think the day is no so far when Microsoft will understand there own problem. They will invent that "$$Microsoft$$" turned into "ProblemSoft">> "ExpireSoft"...>>"DeadSoft" It's really paifull that A person unable to guide/modify or makeup a OS.
A Person should Always follow the "ProblemSoft"'s problematic instructions. Thank You Mir Mahbub Alamgir --- Russell John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift > > By: Charlie Demerjian > > You never quite wrap your head around how > anti-consumer Microsoft's > policies are until they bite you in the bum. Add in > the customer > antagonistic policies of its patsies, HP in this > case, and vendors > like Promise, and you have quite a recipe for pain. > Guess what I did > today? > > It started out quite simply, a client needed to set > up a small branch > office, something I do almost every week. Four > workstation and a > repository for files, occasional backups, and a > shared printer is all > they would need, nothing special. Five HP 5100s, a > printer, a Promise > TX2300 with mirrored drives and a DVD-R was all I > needed. That was the > easy part. > > Out came the anaemic 40GB drive from one HP, and in > when the Promise > controller and two WD 200GB SATA drives. The TX2300 > was a snap to set > up, the hardest part was rebooting 10 times until I > caught that CTRL-F > is the key to get into the card BIOS. A minute > later, the RAID was > built and it was time to restore the OS from the > CDs. Two thumbs up to > Promise here, it really could not be easier. > > This is where the pain began. Microsoft has a policy > where the vendors > can't ship you a Windows CD so instead they have to > send you a series > of restore CDs. These option-free exercises in > rookie programming > mistakes are a shining example of what is wrong with > the industry. HP, > like the weak willed jellyfishes that they are, went > along with this > plan rather than stand up for the people paying > them. > > The problem? The #*(&$ers at HP made it so the brain > dead restore > scripts would not see any hardware other than the > parts they shipped, > and it would not recognise the Promise controller. > Fair enough, it > isn't HP's duty to recognise everything, that would > be well beyond > anything I expected. You just press F6 and install > the drivers > manually, it gives you the standard Windows prompt > there. > > Looking past the problem of the machine not having a > floppy, you can > easily add one for the initial install, things got > ugly quick. The > problem? Those weasels at Captain Junior Spy Central > disabled the F6 > driver install on their restore CD! There is no > Windows CD so you can > do it manually, you either use theirs or have your > own copy. > > If you have a copy of XP to use, guess what? The key > that comes with > the HP box is restricted to the version of Windows > on the restore CD. > Vanilla XP will not work, nor will any of the copies > I have lying > around. Your choice, use only HP hardware or buy a > copy of XP. A big > FU to MS and HP for this little ray of sunshine. > > Money grubbing and brain dead tactics aside, I > figured I could boot > from the Promise CD and possibly manually format the > drives and dump > the install CDs to the HD. That trick will often > work to get you by > initial unrecognised drives. That is when I learned > half of the > problems with Promise, the CD it provides is not > bootable and contains > nothing resembling a tool. Sparse would be a step up > from what it > offers. > > Biting back my fervent desire to throw this mess out > of a window, get > a gun, and go to Redmond, I put in the original HD > and booted into it > to see if there were any interesting tools to help > my plight. I tried > to install the drivers and noticed the second > problem, the #($�ing > Promise CD doesn't have drivers on it! No, I am not > kidding, they ship > the card with a CD, but that CD has no drivers on > it! Honestly. > > If you click the install drivers option, it prompts > you to put a disk > in the (nonexistent) A: drive to make a driver disk. > There is no > option to unpack, no option to put it in any other > location, you are > just screwed. Manually browsing the CD comes up with > the same programs > the moronic installer offers you. A: drive or the > highway. In this day > and age, there is no excuse for not shipping a > driver with hardware, > Promise really screwed this up. > > So, unable to transfer the install easily, unable to > legally use a > different CD of Windows with my legally purchased > key, and unable to > install the drivers with the one I had, I was left > with only one > option. The machine was put in place Saturday > running Ubuntu. The > owner of the chain was informed of it, why it was > done, and what the > ramifications, mainly stability and security, were. > > Luckily, he is a smart man, and from this point on, > Linux will be the > OS of choice on all his servers, it is cheaper to > buy, cheaper to > install, and much more secure. Desktops are under > evaluation, but > Microsoft lost this chain for sure on the server > side. If it doesn't > think their brain dead policies are costing them > money, I am proof > positive that they are, and I am willing to bet I am > far from alone. > > Source: > http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36635 > > -- > ubuntu-bd mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > MIR MAHBUB ALAMGIR __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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