Nuke Richmond

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Fri Jan 12 22:48:16 2001

>> Then again I say this as W95 was a royal PITA the first time compared
to
>> VMS and other DEC OSs I was familiar with. Then again creating a BIOS
>> for CP/M was pretty intimidating at one time too.
>>
>> Allison
>
>It all depends on the person. I can install things such as Linux,
OpenBSD,
>Solaris, OpenVMS, MacOS and RT-11 almost with my eyes closed, and the
hardest
>part is waiting for the software to move from CD to HD (yes, even with
RT-11).
>With any Windows variant I seem to have to dedicate a minimum of one day
to
>cursing and fighting the garbage!


Well first time took three days. Now I can do it in about an hour. 28
client
system that were horridly configured was the practice. By horrid things
like
only one 500mb partition on a 1gb disk and other offenses to the mind.
All I
had to do was learn the OS and install scripting. My favorite kind of
fun
is taking a wreck like a 486/33 with 8mb ram and 120mb of disk and
making a printserver and still have 60mb unused. I can do NT4/server
faster though as it wants fewer reboots. Once I learn Linux installs I
can
do that about as fast for a generic install with most packages. It's
the little "you gotta know" things that make a difference.

Allison
Received on Fri Jan 12 2001 - 22:48:16 GMT