Windows woes

[James Dunne]

pragma wrote:
> In article <e0e770$21p$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, John C says...
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Also, linux is not without its warts too.  I'm having a hell of a time trying to
> get it to support Nforce3 from a floppy install - AFAIK, it can't be done w/o
> some serious hacking or using a CD instead.
> 
> - EricAnderton at yahoo

I set up my dual-boot XP/Gentoo machine at home using VMWare since I 
have an nForce motherboard.  I can't really do a network install booted 
into Linux without drivers for the network card... so VMWare to the 
rescue.  I set it loose to use the physical hard drive so I can install 
Linux onto my HD and boot into it later, *after* I download the nVidia 
drivers for my system.

I decided to leave it installing in a VM because it takes a helluva long 
time to install Gentoo (compiling, compiling, compiling...).  I think I 
had it running for > 2.5 days before I had a minimally working system. 
Now I barely use it and just use XP as the regular OS.

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James Dunne