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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Eat Me Microsoft

I've been installing XP Service Pack 3

for 3 hours

Rodger the Real King of France 10/06/2009 02:07:00 PM 20 Comments

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20 comments:

Anonymous said...: "Skin tight isn't a look many people can pull off." - Casca's daughter

"Nothing worse than a fat chick in tight jeans." - Juice; 10/6/09, 2:40 PM
Anonymous said...: Just sayin'.
—DougM
(Turing word: facts)
*bwahahaha*; 10/6/09, 2:52 PM
BlogDog said...: Like I said before: Mac guy but best of luck with the install. (not joking - always wishing Dr. Schlong the best)

Of course this afternoon I'm going to try to use a Linux boot CD to erase the HD on a Dell so I can do a clean install of XP for starving artist friend.
I'm gonna need some of that luck myself!; 10/6/09, 3:01 PM
Jess said...: That's a long time. I don't remember it taking that long, but then again, the other service packs were already loaded.; 10/6/09, 3:25 PM
Anonymous said...: ... not that Apple can't be complete jackasses.
—DougM; 10/6/09, 3:54 PM
JMcD said...: Hey Rodger.....Are you using the HP PC Recovery Tool?; 10/6/09, 4:07 PM
El Jefe said...: Blog Dog: Use HiRen 9.9 to completely erase the HD if you have to.

Rodge: If you're still having issues, let me know. I can slipstream SP3 into the OS (along with other goodies) if ya need it!; 10/6/09, 4:48 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: Here is my solution for your 'puter needs (this is what I've done for my P4 box:
1) Put 2 hard drives in your box.
2) Format the first for fat32 and install WIN98SE or WINME.
3) Use Partition Magic and split up the drive into several logical drives (mine go up to "L:" - not including CD/DVD drives). Also create the 3 drives needed to install Linux: <1M for BOOT <1M for SWAP and minimum 5G for ROOT.
4) Install WINXPSP3 on the D drive.
5) Install all essential all necessary hardware drivers, utilities, tools, and web browsers on D drive as well.
6) Install all other programs on other logical drives (this keeps D drive size down to a minimum). I try to use mnemonics to assign my other drives: E for Engineering, F for personal "My Documents" Files, G for Games, H for stuff like MSOffice and Hallmark Card Studio, I for Internet software like BitTorrent and website tools, J for photo and video progs, K for audio editing software, and L for downloads and such.
7) Install your fav flavor of Linux on the linux drives and use the Lilo boot manager to choose your OS at startup.
8) Get a copy of OSX86 Leopard and install that to your second hard drive. I'm not a huge Mac fan as there are not enough wares out there to run on it to fulfill all my needs, but I gotta say, it's fun just being able to phuck around with it and I've used it to bail out my ass on a number of occasions.
9) Once everything is up and running properly, create a rescue DVD (Ultimate Rescue CD works nice. Find and download the ISO image online). Run Symantec Ghost and image each of the drives with operating systems individually and split the image files into 2G segments. This will allow you to back them up onto DVDs.

That all you need to do and you will never have to suffer an extended down time beyond a few hours or so.; 10/6/09, 5:13 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: ...Oh, and just for extra measure in case TSHTF, get a second identical box and mirror the hole setup onto it. ;); 10/6/09, 5:18 PM
Anonymous said...: Win98 & ME???? You've got to be kidding! M$FT should have been sued in a class action suit for releasing ME!! You're dangerous Mo.

Casca; 10/6/09, 5:40 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: Pre NT environments are more powerful than you think. While most users today think DOS is a dead and archaic OS, I know differently. There are certain things that can be done in DOS that cannot be done easily in NT. To me, it is an invaluable tool for low level hacking. Trust me, DOS IS KING, BABY!!! Besides, I've amassed too many useful utilities for use under DOS to just abandon it.; 10/6/09, 6:06 PM
B....... said...: MoFiZiX - Your Rube Goldberg computer is the cat's meow! I'll bet you get them all booted up at the same time and talking to each other through localhost......; 10/6/09, 7:51 PM
BlogDog said...: Jefe,
Thanks for the pointer. I've got a Knoppix CD burned already but if I coje a cropper on that, I will try the Hiren.; 10/6/09, 8:41 PM
BlogDog said...: Unh, that's "come a cropper"
My typing has been for crap today.; 10/6/09, 8:42 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey Mo, I'm running CP/M 2.2 on my Osborne 1. Do you think it'll run WinME? I'd sure like to have some of that GUI on my system. BTW, do you think orange text is better than green text? I think I'd get tired of looking at orange all day long.

oy vey ole'; 10/6/09, 9:33 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: HFS!!! I use to use one of those back in the late 80s to burn eproms! If I remember correctly, that thing only operated on an 8 bit architecture.
...man, thats some old school shit!; 10/6/09, 10:25 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: ...oh, and green on black has alway been my colors of choice. I still use it today in DOS.

in config.sys I load up ANSI.SYS and then in my AUTOEXEC I set up my chars as such...

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\mode co80,50
echo [0;32;40m
echo [7h

Orange is just to annoying and gives me a splitting headache if I stare at it for longer than an hour.; 10/6/09, 10:32 PM
Anonymous said...: I run older OS'es in Virtual PC's. I have CP/M-86, PC-DOS 2.1, Win 3.11 and so on ALL working on WinXP and Vista boxes.

Like MoFiZiX I'm an old command line guy ;-); 10/7/09, 6:15 AM
Anonymous said...: I wanna use my OS/2 floppies to run my Atari ST520, will that work?
...
This is coming from a machine running w98SE. Why do I have to learn new interfaces to do the same damn thing? Every time I boot the twin running XP, it interrupts me with these windows popping up suggesting that I get the newest version of Antivir or Acrobat or Foxfire. LEAVE ME ALONE!!

But they don't.
.....
I have a vague memory of being able to use an OEM version on a different machine by copying almost everything to the HD, except one file that was buried in there somewhere that made it aware it was OEM by its existence. IOW, there's a file on the CD/DVD that, if it's there, lets the setup program know it has to poke around and verify that it is on the correct machine.
The OEM cannot be used for 'upgrade' of an existing system...
tomw; 10/7/09, 7:17 AM
Anonymous said...: "Skin tight isn't a look many people can pull off." - Casca's daughter

Someone should have told Speaker NancyP before she got all that work done, no?

tomw; 10/7/09, 7:18 AM

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