Re: [aclug-L] Linux on store shelves

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> You are right, John.  Climbing Mt. McKinley barefooted is infinitely easier
> than climing K2 that way.  :-)  Seriously though, I guess since I install
> Win95 with little or no thought, I assumed that I could eventually work
> myself through a successful Linux install.  I'm finding that intelligence,
> I'm sorry to say, must play a large role in the process.

Interesting battle I had over the weekend with Win95.  I was trying to 
install it on a computer that had it installed before.  (I had
repartitioned.)  It would lock up, every time, at a point early in the 
install -- until a switched the mouse.  Then, one version would hang
later; another would simply sit there flashing a flag.  Eventually, I
had to delete (!) some SCSI drivers, let it suddenly be surprised that 
I have a floppy drive, etc.  In all, about 5 hours of work for what
takes me 15-20 minutes to do with Linux.  And I used to install Win95
on machines at work, and deal with strange problems, so it's not that
this is my first time either.

Perhaps Win95 didn't like seeing two SCSI cards in a single box (even
though it had no business messing with them at all).  But whatever the 
problem (and you can never really tell with Win95 -- I've seen
situations where moving a card from one PCI slot to another fixes
Win95 problems), it's "working" now :-)
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