Re: Currant Bun

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From: Trevor Best
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:00

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Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <CheetahPRO_v1.13-n5_28431@blackcat.demon.co.uk>, Mike Dickson
(md) writes:
>
> md> Caveat Emptor: when I tried to load the latest version of Corel Linux
> md> from the PC Plus cover disk on a test system it fully consumed my MBR
> md> and left the hard disk an unbootable shambles.
>
> Bloody hell, they _are_ going for the non nerd market, they have
> copied NT instalation semantics :-).

I've installed Windows NT (Workstation and Server) loads of times (about 20
for server and probably over 50 for w/s) and the only time it's failed to
boot is when there's a hardware problem, once on a donald ducked hard disks
and once on a PC with bad RAM chips. The hd failure machine I was able to
get up and running after 3 re-installs to un-mirror the disks and salvage
the data since last backup.

NT will goof if you don't update your repair disks, it's not enough to
create them, you must update the repair info after any change to the system
(adding disks, volumes, stripes, etc.).

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From: "Trevor Best" <trevor@besty.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/02/01
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