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

Centurion Computer Technology Limited Centurion at paradise.net.nz
Wed Aug 7 09:48:06 NZST 2002


XP Pro.  An install of everything in RH7.3 (3.5Gb+) only takes about 45
mins, and the installer is much nicer.  What options do I have with XP
except to try and install it again.

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 09:40, Peter Jones wrote:
> 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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