re: Why should I do that? Monday, June 2, 2003 at 1:59 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Tom (1 messages posted) OS/2 does have many advantages, for all Ibm`s attempts to get rid of it, it is`nt as dead as you might think, and can coexist quite happily with windows, after a bit of hacking (on the windows side), my warp 4 and nt4 boot from the same hpfs partition. It can even run an increasing number of win32 programs, and virtually all win16 ones. Perhaps above all, os/2 relies much less on arcane, inpenetrable binary configuration files, of which the windoze registry is by far the worst example. On Monday, January 27, 2003 at 9:01 am, David wrote: >On the other hand - you could do one better, it goes as follows. > >on the c: prompt, type format c: > >choose yes, and watch your windows problems fall away. > >Then, using a boot disk, use fdisk to delete your primary fat32 partition. > >finally, buy (or download on a fast connection) Mandrake, Redhat or SuSE linux. > >Install it! > >finally, you will not need to worry about crashing what so ever. > >David > >____________________________ >Hardware: >Gigabyte KT233 >XP2000 processor >256mb 2100DDR >30gb WD HDD >Mandrake Linux 9.0 with KDE 3.04 >A lot less crashes, a lot more time > > Written in response to: re: Why should I do that? (David: Monday, January 27, 2003 at 9:01 am) Responses to this message: re: Why should I do that? (grumpy: Friday, July 11, 2003 at 9:33 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Why should I do that? (Hugh Jorgan: Fri, Aug 9, 2002, 12:09 pm) re: Why you should do that ! (Mac: Fri, Aug 9, 2002, 1:05 pm) re: Why should I do that? (newrone: Mon, Aug 12, 2002, 5:12 pm) re: Why should I do that? (Intervention: Thu, Aug 15, 2002, 3:46 pm) re: Why should I do that? (Jonnie: Thu, Sep 12, 2002, 7:17 pm) re: Why should I do that? (John Glieson: Mon, Oct 21, 2002, 3:23 pm) re: Why should I do that? (Ariez: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 11:31 pm) re: Why should I do that? (David: Sat, Jan 4, 2003, 4:38 am) re: Why should I do that? (David: Mon, Jan 27, 2003, 9:01 am) re: Why should I do that? (Tom: Mon, Jun 2, 2003, 1:59 pm) re: Why should I do that? (grumpy: Fri, Jul 11, 2003, 9:33 pm) re: Why should I do that? (grumpy: Fri, Jul 11, 2003, 9:19 pm) re: Why should I do that? (LY: Tue, Nov 4, 2003, 8:11 am) I'll tell you a little story about error reports! (james: Fri, Dec 5, 2003, 5:59 am) re: Why should I do that? (Dirk Bester: Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 5:41 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum