[wellylug] Windows XP install compared with Redhat and Mandra kes latest install

[Peter Jones]

Was this XP home edition?  I have been installing XP Pro on a number of
P1.6/40gig/256m boxes,
FIC VC15 board (intel 845D chipset), Pine 3D Phantom video card (32meg)
Genius lan card.
These are about as basic a business-box as you are likely to find.
The install in every case has been very straight forward, none of the
glitches you mention - 
almost as easy as the Lycoris LX install thats on the home PC :-). Each
install takes about 30-40 minutes.

But you're right about the ugliness, and the way MS keep moving stuff
around.
I noticed this also between NT4 and W2000 - the same stuff is there, they
have just changed the way to access it

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Centurion Computer Technology Limited
> [mailto:Centurion at paradise.net.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2002 09:17
> To: wellylug
> Subject: [wellylug] Windows XP install compared with Redhat and
> Mandrakes latest install
> 
> 
> Well I have finally been forced into the unfortunate experience of
> Installing Windows XP onto a customers computer.  The machine is a
> Athlon XP1800+ with 1204MB DDR  PC2700 ram, on an Epox 8K3A+ mobo with
> built in Highpoint Raid, 2x80Gb WD special edition (8Mb 
> cache)hdd setup
> as hardware mirror Raid, LG CDwriter, GF4 MX440 video card, 
> 350Watt Dual
> Fan PSU, and loads of Thermaltake cooling.
> 
> I first installed Redhat 7.3, (KDE3.0 is AWESOME), and played 
> with that
> for a week.  Once I got passed setting up the RAID controller, and
> replaced the PSU, which was causing stability problems, I got it
> installed easily, and it was rock solid.  Played Unreal Tournament at
> 1600x1200x32bit and it was really smooth.  Fantastic system, I didn't
> get sound going, but I never really tried, though there was a 
> fix for it
> on the net, I just never got that far.
> 
> I installed WindowsXP lastnight at the request of my 
> customer, and I was
> shocked at how bad the installer was.  Took about 3 hours to install,
> the installer crashed once and I had to start again, and after finally
> getting the thing up and running the CDwriter wouldn't read any of the
> driver cd's.  I have had to mount the cd's in my Linux box and install
> the drivers over my samba connection.  There is nothing wrong with the
> drive, windows just keeps complaining about incorrect registry entries
> and missing dlls,and thats after a clean install  It is soooooooooooo
> slow, espaecially compared to KDE with everything turned on 
> under Redhat
> 7.3.   Did I mention it is UGLY, yuk, it's near impossible to find
> things, even for those familiar with 98 ME 2000Pro, I can't believe it
> is Micrsofts Flagship product.  I did read the liscensing 
> agreement and
> found that the DRM that is threatening to become the next 
> plague of the
> internet is already partialy implemented in XP, and you are limited to
> connecting to 10 other devices eg Printers, other Computers etc.  so
> once you have a couple of computers with a couple of devices each you
> break the EULA agreement.  Any way thats enough about this 
> bloatware, I
> better get on to the net and find info on how to fix the problems I am
> having with it.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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