Here I go reinstalling Windows XP on my other computer for the second time in as many months. I don’t think that this “upgrade” is going to work, but I have to try to get it to pull out of super slug mode and accept the drivers for my printer that had been working fine up until last week. What a pain!
And, its not like an install of Mepis or Linspire, where you have about a 10-15 minute install and your hard drive’s full of goodies. My well-known components will require drivers installed to work properly because the support won’t be there “out of the box”. Oh well. At least its not ‘98 or BeOS.
Update
I’ve not been successful in doing an “upgrade” so a chkdsk and a few corrupted file later, I think that I might have something that’s workable. We’ll see. At least I got the printer/scanner working. That’s a start.
Update
Rebooting causes changes to the video driver to be lost. Since there’s no easy configuration file to edit, it sure looks like a reinstall of the OS. Lovely.
It didn’t work. The installer couldn’t overwrite a lot of files in the system folder, so it went stupid and refused to do its job. If my kids didn’t like all those Gamehouse and Reflexive
spywaregames, I would fire its ass and hire Linux.Have you actually tried BeOS? I remember it coming out, and a friend tried it, but that’s basically all I ever heard of it.
Yes, I have. You can download it for free, but there’s no documentation, unless you get the BeO$ Bible. Its kinda neat, but without the docs, its limited. And, driver support is limited as well.
I’ve tried quite a few operating systems over the years. I remember running BeOS on the same hard drive as Windows XP, 98SE, and three flavors of Linux. It was getting cramped!