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On Thu, 11 May 2000 03:25:07 +0100, {R} Richard Ashton
<{R}@soggy.semolina.org> wrote a message in demon.tech.pc that I am
replying to:

>A number of points while I am at it, win2K has just demised from this box,
>heap of fuck crack 735Mb required to install the shit. Jesus this laptop only
>has 5Gb and its busy so I trashed the NT Server partition.

oh...

>What a fucking pain to install, 5 times longer than NT, and it craps on the
>boot partition.

I found the install time depends on the hardware chucked at it, modern
stuff it installs a breeze on, not tried it on anything 'old'[1]

>It is much more polite than NT. NT says I have seen the enemy OS/2 boot
>manager, you cant have it and if you don't let me disable it I won't play,
>except it doesn't mean it. It is trivial to re-enable boot manager under NT.
>Win2k is much more polite, it says it's found OS/2 boot manager and it will
>disable it but you can re-enable it from some disky thing.
>First find you disky thing Disk Administrator has gone walkabout into some
>god forsaken management console that is as intuitive a Rubrick's(sp) fucking
>cube. finally having found the bitch you can indeed mark partition 1 Boot
>manager active.

I've only installed it on a mixed system once - if fucked it so bad I
had to blow all the partition info from the master boot disk and start
again on the machine. I'd like to know why it installs a 8Mb 'boot'
partition never mind I'm sure, he says with tongue firmly in cheek,
that the Win2K CDT training disk that is heading my way thanks to head
office will tell me all about it (I doubt it)

>It fucking lies, win2k is broken bootmanager comes up as the normal blue
>panel with no bloody words on it as sits there.
>Win2k deleted.

I'm having another go this weekend 

>During the general kludge to find enough space for the wonder of the modern
>age base on NT (ha ha) I converted an HPFS partition to NTFS and reinstalled
>the data, I was gob smacked, reading news from Agent with the database on
>NTFS there are pauses, stutters, waits what a crock of shit NTFS is. 

I've not had problems with ntfs and large agent database files yet,
apart from when the procesor has been maxed out (it's only a p200/64Mb
ram, and it has mailtraq and sygate running on it as well )

>All data back where it belongs, The wonder of the age in the pile of old
>magazine CD's awaiting at least 3 service packs and an fix for HPFS R/W (the
>OS/2 community will write one) and the boot manage bug fixed,
>Wake me around 2002 

cynic

[1] for old read anything over 6 months old.

Robbie
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