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My sister just arrived for a visit here in western Canada 
(Vancouver) from Australia.  I asked her to bring me a copy of 
the CDROM package that was included with the Australian Personal 
Computer mag.  It has a copy of Warp 4, BEOS 5, And Redhat 6.2.
 
Well I tried to install Redhat 6.2 on my system. The way I have 
it partitioned is as follows: 
I have two physical drives. the first is a 13 gig IDE, the second
is a 2 gig SCSI drive.
 
First partition is OS/2 boot manager  (takes up 7 megs)
Second partition is a 2 gig primary FAT partition that had 
Windows NT 4.0 on it
Third partition is a 1 gig  primary partition that has Warp 4 on 
it
Fourth partition is a 6 gig data logical partition formatted with
HPFS
Fifth, sixth and seventh are HPFS logical partitions.
Finally I have an old SCSI drive formatted HPFS of 2 gigs in 
size.
 
After booting up the CDROM, I went through most of the install 
with no problems until I came to the Druid for the drives.  I 
have rarely seen such a poorly described procedure. This is why 
Linux is abhorred by a great many computer users.  
 
When you are doing something as important as deleting partitions 
there needs to be a far better description of what it is you are 
doing.  Even I could write a better FDISK manager than the one in
RedHat 6.2.  
 
The Disk Druid allowed me to delete the partition of 2 gigs that 
used to have my NT 4.0 on it.  Although it did not tell me to do 
so, after 10 mins I gathered that to make it format as a Linux 
partition, I had to delete it first.  Now many of you out there 
are now saying "so what, that is easy"  Well Let me tell you.  
the FDISK Druid reports my Boot manager partition as partition 2,
the NT partition as #3, the Warp partition as #4.  I can tell you
it is unnerving to say the least when it comes to deleting 
partitions, when the utility to help you determine what 
partitions are what, is distinctly different than the actual 
drive layout according to OS/2 Boot Manager.
 
 Anyhow after doing that I was unable to choose to go to the next
installation screen.  So after mucking about with no success, I 
went and chose the FDISK option in the earlier setup screen. This
at least allowed me a character based fdisk that was able to do a
bit more.  However, after deleting the NT partition and adding a 
new partition, and then "W"riting it to the disk, I was still 
unable to go beyond to the next installation screen.  After a 
further 20 mins of trying all sorts of other possibilities, I 
gave up. At least the magazine also included a copy of Warp 4. So
all is not lost.
 
I guess I can re-install a NT 4 or a Win 2000 on the now empty 2 
gig partition.
 
BTW I have seen the similar screwups with Caldera, and Corel 
Linux as well, so I assume they are all the same installation 
code.
 
I can and do install FREEBSD over my DSL connection and this 
works well.  It seems FREEBSD had no troubles with Boot Manager. 
I wish the people writing the Linux installation would wake up!
 
This is precisely why Linux will never catch up to Windows (And 
believe me I pray that it does).  It needs much improvement over 
its current form.  I fear it will never get that needed 
improvement until a big corp like Sun or IBM takes it on.  And 
that will never happen because the Linux loonies will never let a
mega Corp do anything with it.  
 
I actually suspect IBM is a bit at fault here with some screwups 
in the OS/2 Boot Manager as well as the Linux crap.  But there 
are millions of OS/2 users who have Boot Manager, and if the 
Linux crowd does not understand how to make an installation work 
with OS/2 boot manager, it only reflects the attitude I have 
always suspected of Linux loonies.  
 
That is they are for the most part , happy with cloning the 
Windows system.  In other words, the Windows crowd has eaten 
porridge every day for their whole lives, and the windows 
refugees who are leaving to go to Linux, are quite happy to 
continue to eat porridge. After all it is the only thing they are
familiar with and all they are aware of.  This is always the way 
it will be.   OS/2 users on the other hand are more used to 
eating off of a varied menu, and are reluctant to suffer with the
same porridge.
 
Damm I wish IBM could separate the upper management from the 
talented software writers, and hire the engineers to run the show
instead of the current bean counters and idiot sales staff!
 
 
From the Desk of Mike Stephen
Micro$oft has performed an illegal operation,
 and will be shut down.
 


From the Desk of Mike Stephen
Micro$oft has performed an illegal operation,
 and will be shut down.