Comments on: Doing it After All http://coreythompson.com/2007/10/doing-it-after-all/ ...but I'm right! Get yer historical hero clay figurines now! Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1-10026 hourly 1 By: mrcorey http://coreythompson.com/2007/10/doing-it-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2500 mrcorey Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:59:43 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2007/10/19/doing-it-after-all/#comment-2500 Getting Windows installed is almost always harder to do on a Pentium 3 or newer. XP is better than its predecessors in that respect, but there are still driver issues. I don't know what it was in my system that was causing the problems, but wiping the drive and reinstalling a fresh copy of XP fixed it (but Debian would have been better!)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2500','mrcorey'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2500','mrcorey','Getting Windows installed is almost always harder to do on a Pentium 3 or newer. XP is better than its predecessors in that respect, but there are still driver issues. I don\'t know what it was in my system that was causing the problems, but wiping the drive and reinstalling a fresh copy of XP fixed it (but Debian would have been better!)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Getting Windows installed is almost always harder to do on a Pentium 3 or newer. XP is better than its predecessors in that respect, but there are still driver issues. I don’t know what it was in my system that was causing the problems, but wiping the drive and reinstalling a fresh copy of XP fixed it (but Debian would have been better!)
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]]> By: Dan Timon http://coreythompson.com/2007/10/doing-it-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2498 Dan Timon Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:44:33 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2007/10/19/doing-it-after-all/#comment-2498 Wow technical stuff is this a project for your home corey? And I thought getting alinux version to work an an ancient compaq was going to be difficult.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2498','Dan Timon'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2498','Dan Timon','Wow technical stuff is this a project for your home corey? And I thought getting alinux version to work an an ancient compaq was going to be difficult.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Wow technical stuff is this a project for your home corey? And I thought getting alinux version to work an an ancient compaq was going to be difficult.
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]]> By: RT Cunningham http://coreythompson.com/2007/10/doing-it-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2458 RT Cunningham Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:06:34 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2007/10/19/doing-it-after-all/#comment-2458 Reinstalling XP is the only way to fix a lot of issues. If you have a huge HD as a spare somewhere, try to ghost it when you get done so you don't ever have to do it again. I have a 750 GB drive inbound and that's what I'll be doing. In fact, all the non-Windows OS stuff will reside on that drive so that the ghost image will be as small as possible. I say ghost, but any full-drive backup will work.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2458','RT Cunningham'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2458','RT Cunningham','Reinstalling XP is the only way to fix a lot of issues. If you have a huge HD as a spare somewhere, try to ghost it when you get done so you don\'t ever have to do it again. I have a 750 GB drive inbound and that\'s what I\'ll be doing. In fact, all the non-Windows OS stuff will reside on that drive so that the ghost image will be as small as possible. I say ghost, but any full-drive backup will work.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Reinstalling XP is the only way to fix a lot of issues. If you have a huge HD as a spare somewhere, try to ghost it when you get done so you don’t ever have to do it again. I have a 750 GB drive inbound and that’s what I’ll be doing. In fact, all the non-Windows OS stuff will reside on that drive so that the ghost image will be as small as possible. I say ghost, but any full-drive backup will work.
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]]> By: devin http://coreythompson.com/2007/10/doing-it-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2456 devin Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:49:44 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2007/10/19/doing-it-after-all/#comment-2456 Yes, install Debian, use a KDE Windows XP Theme manager, and get WINE to run (invisibly underneath the hood of course) all the window apps they would use anyway. Then when they download a Windows program and doesn't run, when approached about this problem you can shrug your shoulders in fake perplexion. "It must be a bad executable!" Mwahahahahaha!!!! Whos the most evil of them all now? :twisted: I am kidding of course. That was must my long winded way of agreeing, that yes, Debian would be technically 'the best'.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('2456','devin'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('2456','devin','Yes, install Debian, use a KDE Windows XP Theme manager, and get WINE to \r\nrun (invisibly underneath the hood of course) all the window apps they\r\nwould use anyway. Then when they download a Windows program and doesn\'t run,\r\nwhen approached about this problem you can shrug your shoulders in fake\r\nperplexion. \"It must be a bad executable!\" Mwahahahahaha!!!! Whos the most\r\nevil of them all now? :twisted: I am kidding of course. That was must my\r\nlong winded way of agreeing, that yes, Debian would be technically \'the best\'.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Yes, install Debian, use a KDE Windows XP Theme manager, and get WINE to
run (invisibly underneath the hood of course) all the window apps they
would use anyway. Then when they download a Windows program and doesn’t run,
when approached about this problem you can shrug your shoulders in fake
perplexion. “It must be a bad executable!” Mwahahahahaha!!!! Whos the most
evil of them all now? :twisted: I am kidding of course. That was must my
long winded way of agreeing, that yes, Debian would be technically ‘the best’.
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