Re: Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:29:28PM +0100, Emiel Metselaar wrote: | On Tuesday 18 December 2001 16:29, dman wrote: | > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Emiel Metselaar wrote: | > ... | > | > | sys c: | > | > I did this once. Destroyed the disk! I don't recommend doing it | > again. | ...

Re: Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 16:29, dman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Emiel Metselaar wrote: > ... > > | sys c: > > I did this once. Destroyed the disk! I don't recommend doing it > again. > > The story : > A few years back I acquired some antique hardware (Intel 8086 >

Re: Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Emiel Metselaar wrote: ... | sys c: I did this once. Destroyed the disk! I don't recommend doing it again. The story : A few years back I acquired some antique hardware (Intel 8086 system, also a 286 mobo+cpu and 25MB MFM hard disk, 2 360K

Re: Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 16:06, o polite wrote: > Some time ago I tried to install the userfriendly OS Windows 98 on spare > partition. Of course it succeded in rendering my laptop unusable. It took > me two days to get my system back. This was four weeks ago, so now I'm > ready for some more pa

Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread o polite
Some time ago I tried to install the userfriendly OS Windows 98 on spare partition. Of course it succeded in rendering my laptop unusable. It took me two days to get my system back. This was four weeks ago, so now I'm ready for some more pain. Instead of letting the windows installer put it's