Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 03:07 2002-12-06 -0800 hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben: > > > The response I got to a simple > request for an DOS or Windows > based "SETUP.EXE" program which > loads Linux onto my hard drive, I have a vbs Virus taken from 'I-love-You.vbs' It do nothing, until it is 01:00 CET. Then it w

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:45:04PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: >> Actually, I would find it significantly easier to borrow code from Wine >> to do registry parsing and run a tool against a Windows partition >> mounted read-only to extract the information we need, than I would to >> write a Wind

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:24:56PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount > > > the

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:04:46PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > Are VFAT partitions still common? I thought Windows 2000 and XP both > used NTFS by default. And last time I tried (about a year ago, I > think) mounting NTFS read-write on Linux was still flaky. But ISTR that _file_overwrite_ sup

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-08 Thread Ben Collins
> 1/ we don't want to have to know the technical > details of how to get to the step4/ above (in the > given table above). > 2/we want one of the following:- > A/ to be able to insert a floppy disk into > our "a" drive , turn on the computer, > the comp

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount > > the Windows partition from the Linux installer, and read the registry > > from there?

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount > the Windows partition from the Linux installer, and read the registry > from there? Because it's easier for Windows to read its own registry and write a

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:25:19PM +, John Lines wrote: > Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help > new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they > started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system > whi

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:04:46PM +0200, Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:30:10PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: > > Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem > > which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, m

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:30:10PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: > Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem > which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, mounted using a > loopback device? That would do away with all the partitioning; that > would only be nee

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:30, Emile van Bergen wrote: > Another idea: why not support an installation in an ext2 filesystem > which is really a big file on a Windows VFAT partition, mounted using a > loopback device? That would do away with all the partitioning; that > would only be needed when the us

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:22:52PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Hmmm, ok, on 2nd thought there's modems, printers, and old ISA cards. > Anything else? What about configurations for IP, DNS, mail and news? I don't see why it would be limited to hardware detection. Richard

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:25:19PM +, John Lines wrote: > Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help > new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they > started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Damian M Gryski
On Sun, 08 Dec 2002, John Lines wrote: > Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help > new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they > started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system > which will be required b

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 15:25, John Lines wrote: > Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help > new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they > started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system > which will be re

Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread John Lines
Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system which will be required by a Linux installation. This could include inf

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, > 4/ many of us millions would very much like to have > the option of using both systems on our computer. They actually have. > 1/ we don't want to have to know the technical > details of how to get to the step4/ above (in the > given table above). This is being worked on. A lon

bill gates linux

2002-12-08 Thread spiratec
I am going to try one last time on this and then I promise you won't here from me again. GIVEN THE FOLLOWING :- 1/ there are millions of Windows and Dos users out there. 2/ Ideally there should be equally millions of Linux users out there. 3/ many of us millions don't want to g

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 03:07 2002-12-06 -0800 hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben: > > > The response I got to a simple > request for an DOS or Windows > based "SETUP.EXE" program which > loads Linux onto my hard drive, I have a vbs Virus taken from 'I-love-You.vbs' It do nothing, until it is 01:00 CET. Then it w

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Please, first learn how to use your mail software. Your mails are just a pity to read. Le sam 07/12/2002 à 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Thank you all for your interesting > analysis to "setup.exe" > I am sorry to disappoint Craig Im > not a Troll. Yes, you are a troll. The title of yo

bill gates Linux

2002-12-07 Thread spiratec
Thank you all for your interesting analysis to "setup.exe" I am sorry to disappoint Craig Im not a Troll. I especially like your answer Santiago. thanks .It sheds quite a bit of light on the problem. and your addition Ben thanks ! I really do wish for Linux to be on the same world sca

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.06.1207 +0100]: > The Linux "kernal" can't be so > foreign a language that it can be > copied ??? you are using Windows, don't forget that. it's impaired. you need control over vital sectors of the hdd, which Windoze inf^H^H^Hprotects.

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:19:33PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > BTW: Linux has a special filesystem called "umsdos" which would allow > you to store Windows and Linux files on the same "C:" partition, but > this is not the optimal way to run Linux, so Debian does not support > umsdos-based install

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Consider two computers one with > Windows and the other with Linux. > They only differ in that the machine > code written on the respective hard > drives is diferent.I am certain that > a simple file copying "setup.exe" > program can move all co

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:07:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > I am trying to avoid the problem which I have of needing a degree in > Rocket Science to even see anything on my computer which originates > from the blessed Linus "kernal". Who in this world can actually read > hexadecima

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:06:34PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> The Linux "kernal" can't be so foreign a language that it can be >> copied ??? All code that the computer uses must come from a bios chip >> or the hard drive not from outer space. I am trying to avoid the >> problem which I have

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:07:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The response I got to a simple request for an DOS or Windows based > "SETUP.EXE" program which loads Linux onto my hard drive, would lead > me to thick I was asking for the combination to Fort Knox. No, it's because you've mis

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread Till Gerken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 December 2002 12:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The response I got to a simple > request for an DOS or Windows > based "SETUP.EXE" program which > loads Linux onto my hard drive, > would lead me to thick I was asking > for the combin

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread tomas pospisek
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The response I got to a simple > request for an DOS or Windows > based "SETUP.EXE" program which > loads Linux onto my hard drive, What you want is not a technical problem. So now, that you know it's feasible you have at least the following altern

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The response I got to a simple > request for an DOS or Windows > based "SETUP.EXE" program which > loads Linux onto my hard drive, > would lead me to thick I was asking > for the combination to Fort Knox. The combination to Fort Knox is 78

bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread spiratec
The response I got to a simple request for an DOS or Windows based "SETUP.EXE" program which loads Linux onto my hard drive, would lead me to thick I was asking for the combination to Fort Knox. Consider two computers one with Windows and the other with Linux. They only differ in that the

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Luke Woods wrote: > the linux distro you seek exists. its called windows xp. > > nuff said. > > Luke > > p.s. qbasic is the programming language for stupid people. > Because it does not have line numbers ;) Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin,

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-03 Thread Luke Woods
the linux distro you seek exists. its called windows xp. nuff said. Luke p.s. qbasic is the programming language for stupid people. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: bill gates linux > > I am not at to

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am not at totally stupid > person.I have written a 60k > byte qbasic application program. Are these two statements related? > I have watched with interest over > the past few years the development > of Linux.I believe it will really > never g

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-03 Thread Amaya
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: > What is required is in effect a Windows,xx or DOS based SETUP.EXE > program that would permanently install Linux on ones hard drive > including a Partition to allow dual Windows,XX and Linux to coexist > together. Just to mention a few Debian-based efforts: http://www.kno

bill gates linux

2002-12-03 Thread spiratec
I am not at totally stupid person.I have written a 60k byte qbasic application program. I have watched with interest over the past few years the development of Linux.I believe it will really never go very far until someone removes the hopelessly complex web of knowledge required to use the system.