[ILUG] installing windows...

[Martin McNelis]

Ok, fair shake here....

If you had the floppy that comes with Win'98, you could see your CD.
And do you honestly expect the bios to suddenly recognise a HD just cos
you've put Windows onto it?

To compare like with like, try installing RH6.0 or earlier on a P75.  If you
can get a working desktop environment (what I presume your friend is looking
for?) in under an hour, you'll be doing VERY well.

I'm no champion for Windows, but let's be fair here...

Martin McNelis
Software Test Engineer
Tecnomen Ltd.

Phone: 061 - 702342
Mailto:Martin.McNelis at Tecnomen.ie

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	kevin lyda [SMTP:kevin at suberic.net]
> Sent:	Friday, May 18, 2001 8:34 AM
> To:	irish linux users group
> Subject:	[ILUG] installing windows...
> 
> the quick question is, how can i get a compaq deskpro (pentium 75 or
> so) to recognise a disk (8374c, 16h, 63s)?  i can see it in linux, but
> not in windows.  also, anyone know where to mount a second disk in a
> deskpro case?
> 
> ok, so here i had a bare machine last weekend.  my cousin wanted win98
> on it.  so i had a win98 cd, and there was a working copy of dos on it.
> however the computer wouldn't boot from cd, and i couldn't get dos to
> see the cd.  there was no driver disk with the cdrom drive.
> 
> i tried:
> 
>     a complete install of dos 6.22 - no cdrom detected.
>     a complete install of win 3.11 - no cdrom detected.
> 
> finally i booted my laptop and started hunting for docs.  buried within
> a readme file in the win98 sub-directory was a comment that i *could*
> copy the install files from the cd to the hd (/w98flat) and i could
> install from there.  bingo.
> 
> downloaded tom's boot root, copied with a few errors to a floppy, booted
> up (ignored errors) and proceeded to copy the cd dir to the win dir -
> took around 30 minutes (previous adventures had taken around six hours).
> installed win98.  took an hour (redhat takes around 30 minutes).
> 
> i had gone through this whole thing because the bios couldn't recognise
> my cousin's hd - the big one above.  now with a working 98 install,
> i plugged in the disk and booted up.  nada.
> 
> so, linux driver support was *better* and easier in this case.
> 
> all in all the 98 install isn't complete after 8 hours.  linux would
> have installed in 30 minutes.  sadly the want windows.
> 
> kevin
> 
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