[ILUG] RANT: Reinstalling Windows

[valen at tuatha.org]

On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:18:16AM +0100, Thomas Bridge mentioned:
> > When installing LILO, install it to your root partition and use fdisk to set 
> > it to be active. That way, whenever something rewrites the MBR (Windows, 
> > drive geometry remappers etc) the worst you have to do is use fdisk (any 
> > fdisk, even that POS you get with Windows) to set the correct partition to 
> > be active.
> Not the point.   The point is that it didn't just ask - even NT when
> installed gives you an option to boot some of the OSes that were on the
> machine.   Windows 95 just goes aheads and break things.

 Look. Microsoft invented your X86 MBR. They can do whatever they want with it.

 On a non-related note:

1) Anyone heard of someone sucessfully booting BeOS 4.5 in VMware ?

2) I've copied /usr/share/themes/BrushedMetalBlue/gtk/gtkrc to ~/.gtkrc -
now all gtk apps moan about:

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "brushed2.xpm" line 13
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "brushed2.xpm" line 14 
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "brushed2-dark.xpm" line 15 
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "brushed2-light.xpm" line 16 
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "brushed2.xpm" line 13 
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "brushed2.xpm" line 14 
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "brushed2-dark.xpm" line 15 
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "brushed2-light.xpm" line 16 

 Yeah, they complain twice....and work fine. They can find the poxy files,
and the theme works. What's up ?

Kate