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So if I were to partition my hard drive you mean it could damage my
current windows or do you mean if I partition and then bung xp on one
side that would damage it(question mark). Sorry if I sound dim but I
have no experience concerning dual booting or creating partitions. I
have software to do the partition but it seems most are advising
against putting xp on my system. Can you tell me how do you convert
the fat32 to the ntfs needed for xp. I read that it does not do it
automatically. Basically I need a step by step guide to creating a
partition and on installing xp so that win98se runs on the other bit of
the hard drive.
Thanks
Stanislaw Flatto Wrote:
> Dan wrote:-
> The question I ponder is why Microsoft is so adament about trying to
> kill off
> the 9x line when consumers have clearly shown how they like 98SE.
> Even
> businesses like 98SE. I know supporting two lines of code is
> expensive but
> as a shareholder I ask myself is Microsoft willing to take the
> gamble-
> Consumers, who?
> About a generation ago, twenty something years, IBM came out with a
> "toy", free from patents (compared to Apple), so Formosa (today's
> Taiwan) flooded the market with "IBM compatibles".
> At the time one Bill Gates was still writing lines of code to make
> this
> toy usable and Disk Operating System was born. (Actually those were
> tripplets - IBM-DOS, MS-DOS and Digital Research - DOS).
> But Bill was writing and compiling on some mainframe which utilised
> some
> flavor of "multiuser, multitasking" OS and it stuck with him.
> So few years later Microsoft came out, with great fanfare, with New
> Technology OS and when introducing it Bill declared "NT is a weak
> Unix".
> It might have been a political decision not to follow the "Unix way"
> which declares "create an app that does ONE job, but does it well!",
> and
> to try to combine a whole sets of applications that interact in every
> possible way.
> So the finished system is prone to failures as users differ in their
> usages.
> And the dual line of codes is with us from Win3 to WinME for more than
> a
> decade.
> In the meantime some computer student wrote some code to copy the
> behaviour of his Unix universitaic mainframe on his desktop "IBM
> compatible" put the result on internet and Linux came to life.
> So life became difficult for accounting and marketing branches of
> Microsoft and they start cutting corners.
> Consumers, what about them?
>
> Have fun
>
> Stanislaw
> Linux user No.162760
--
PSYCHOPIXIE
So if I were to partition my hard drive you mean it could damage my
current windows or do you mean if I partition and then bung xp on one
side that would damage it(question mark). Sorry if I sound dim but I
have no experience concerning dual booting or creating partitions. I
have software to do the partition but it seems most are advising
against putting xp on my system. Can you tell me how do you convert
the fat32 to the ntfs needed for xp. I read that it does not do it
automatically. Basically I need a step by step guide to creating a
partition and on installing xp so that win98se runs on the other bit of
the hard drive.
Thanks
Stanislaw Flatto Wrote:
> Dan wrote:-
> The question I ponder is why Microsoft is so adament about trying to
> kill off
> the 9x line when consumers have clearly shown how they like 98SE.
> Even
> businesses like 98SE. I know supporting two lines of code is
> expensive but
> as a shareholder I ask myself is Microsoft willing to take the
> gamble-
> Consumers, who?
> About a generation ago, twenty something years, IBM came out with a
> "toy", free from patents (compared to Apple), so Formosa (today's
> Taiwan) flooded the market with "IBM compatibles".
> At the time one Bill Gates was still writing lines of code to make
> this
> toy usable and Disk Operating System was born. (Actually those were
> tripplets - IBM-DOS, MS-DOS and Digital Research - DOS).
> But Bill was writing and compiling on some mainframe which utilised
> some
> flavor of "multiuser, multitasking" OS and it stuck with him.
> So few years later Microsoft came out, with great fanfare, with New
> Technology OS and when introducing it Bill declared "NT is a weak
> Unix".
> It might have been a political decision not to follow the "Unix way"
> which declares "create an app that does ONE job, but does it well!",
> and
> to try to combine a whole sets of applications that interact in every
> possible way.
> So the finished system is prone to failures as users differ in their
> usages.
> And the dual line of codes is with us from Win3 to WinME for more than
> a
> decade.
> In the meantime some computer student wrote some code to copy the
> behaviour of his Unix universitaic mainframe on his desktop "IBM
> compatible" put the result on internet and Linux came to life.
> So life became difficult for accounting and marketing branches of
> Microsoft and they start cutting corners.
> Consumers, what about them?
>
> Have fun
>
> Stanislaw
> Linux user No.162760
--
PSYCHOPIXIE