Fuck Microshit!

[Durandal]

Mwhahahahah!

Go Mac OS X!

*Remembers how much Apple hardware costs*

Balls.

[Vertigo1]

Mwhahahahah!

Go Mac OS X!

*Remembers how much Apple hardware costs*

Balls.

hahah

*remembers when CompUSA charged $82,404.02 for Mac OS X (Jaguar)*

I have a screenshot of that btw.

[Durandal]

LOL! Yeah, I remember that. I could have almost believed it, given Apple's recent software pricing schemes (.Mac, no Jaguar upgrade pricing).

Not only that, but they put it in the "PC-compatible OS" category.

[Darth Wong]

Just out of curiosity, how big IS the update for Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2? I've got 8.1 on CDs here at home and I plan on installing it again in a few days.

The Mandrake 8.2 download edition is 3 CD's. There are bigger editions (I think the powerpack edition is 7 CD's) out there, but you have to buy them retail.

There's no "update" per se. If you download the 8.2 CD's, they will give you the option to either upgrade your 8.1 or install a fresh copy.

[MKSheppard]

(either that, or your CD is unreliable when pushing lots of data; I had nightmarish installation problems with MDK 8.1 until I replaced my CD-ROM cable with an 80-wire ATA100 cable, at which point it installed flawlessly).

It's the Cabling.......I replaced it with another IDE cable I had laying around
still in it's wrapper from one of my innumerable upgrades over the years.....
I'm having major problems installing Windows 98SE, same as I was Linux....

Well, off to see if my replacement cable works......

[MKSheppard]

Mucho thanks to Wong for his suggestion of that formatting program. It
worked like a charm, much better than FDISK, and I have verified the
triple boot ability of DOS 6.2, Windows 98SE, and Mandrake 8.2

[MKSheppard]

got my mouse and both CD-ROMs working in DOS......now I have
the power of a fully armed and operational DOS installation.....

[Azeron]

I miss playing Dark Forces. That game was awesome for its time. After that, Lucas Arts just put out crap.

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

I'm basically gonna use it as a triple boot machine

1. Mandrake Linux 8.2

2. Microsoft Windows 98SE (best windows ever)

3. MS-DOS 6.22 (many old dos games do not run under the DOS 7.0 issued
with Windows 9x)

You have DOS 6.22?? Where to get it? Where to buy it? Is it considered abandonware now? May I copy it?

[His Divine Shadow]

I had some probs with KDE3, weird frickin shit, it just wanted to freeze it's little ass of now and then, and alot of the time, when I say close a console window, well it's every time, the frickin menu bar freezes.

[Darth Wong]

I had some probs with KDE3, weird frickin shit, it just wanted to freeze it's little ass of now and then, and alot of the time, when I say close a console window, well it's every time, the frickin menu bar freezes.

Hey, I wasn't kidding when I said KDE3's terminal program is buggy. Just right-click on it, delete the shortcut from the menu bar, and replace it with G-Nome terminal (I think the problem has something to do with installing KDE3 on top of KDE2).

[MKSheppard]

You have DOS 6.22?? Where to get it? Where to buy it? Is it considered abandonware now? May I copy it?

Actually, only DOS 6.2 I wasn't able to find my old DOS 6.22 disks

Uhm, I dunno......I'll have to see about that....

[Vertigo1]

I've got every version of DOS since 3.0. I actually miss the "whereis" command they got rid of in v5.x. They replaced it with the "find" command which uses a bunch of command line options. With the whereis command, you could simply time "whereis filename.ext" and it would located it wherever it is on the PC. Searched every drive.

[Vertigo1]

Just out of curiosity, how big IS the update for Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2? I've got 8.1 on CDs here at home and I plan on installing it again in a few days.

The Mandrake 8.2 download edition is 3 CD's. There are bigger editions (I think the powerpack edition is 7 CD's) out there, but you have to buy them retail.

There's no "update" per se. If you download the 8.2 CD's, they will give you the option to either upgrade your 8.1 or install a fresh copy.

Ahh. Ohh well, could you answer one more question for me? Is it remotely possible to get Mandrake 8.1 to work on the ATA100 bus? (I'm running an Asus a7v which luckily has 2 ATA100 and 2 ATA66 connectors on-board.) Linux setup reads and writes just fine, its when I try to boot it is when I run into trouble. Even the bootdisk won't work. (can't find the image) I've gotten it to work previously over the ATA66 bus just fine though.

[Darth Wong]

Ahh. Ohh well, could you answer one more question for me? Is it remotely possible to get Mandrake 8.1 to work on the ATA100 bus? (I'm running an Asus a7v which luckily has 2 ATA100 and 2 ATA66 connectors on-board.) Linux setup reads and writes just fine, its when I try to boot it is when I run into trouble. Even the bootdisk won't work. (can't find the image) I've gotten it to work previously over the ATA66 bus just fine though.

That Promise ATA100 controller is a bitch, isn't it? I've had a bitch of a time trying to install Windows 2000 on those controllers too; I usually just run it off the ATA66 bus instead (it's one of those dirty little secrets of the hard drive manufacturers that it really doesn't matter, since the hard drive won't push anywhere near 66 MB/s anyway). You don't have these problems with intalling Linux or Win2k on newer motherboards with ATA100 integrated into the chipset (as opposed to the kludgy tack-on method used in the A7V; it's a nice board and I've got one myself, but it's kludgy nonetheless).

I've seen instructions on mandrakeuser.org for doing it, but it seemed complicated. I'm not sure if Mandrake 8.2 handles it more gracefully (I installed it on an i815-chipset board, not my A7V).

I've got every version of DOS since 3.0. I actually miss the "whereis" command they got rid of in v5.x. They replaced it with the "find" command which uses a bunch of command line options. With the whereis command, you could simply time "whereis filename.ext" and it would located it wherever it is on the PC. Searched every drive.

Actually, the "whereis" command lives on! ... in linux.

[Vertigo1]

Yeah, it is a pain in the ass sometimes. Its nice to have the added space, but annoying when trying to install things to devices attached to it. Ironically, Windows 98 installs just fine over it yet 2k and XP setup hates it. Go figure.