Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Quiet?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I tried Debian once.  The installation worked OK except that at the end 
I could never get it to work.  My machine has 2 SCSI drives and an IDE 
drive.  I wanted to put Debian on the IDE drive.  The BIOS would boot 
from the first SCSI drive, which had a booteasy bootsector (the standard 
booting program for FreeBSD), and then I would select it to boot from 
the IDE drive, which had LILO or maybe its replacement on its boot 
sector.  Well, LILO would never work - I think it was assuming that the 
IDE drive was in fact the primary drive, and that messed it up.

I also tried to install Windows.  That was just as hard.  I had Windows 
installed on the first SCSI drive before the IDE drive had been 
installed.  But then after the IDE drive was installed, the Windows 
installation became completely broken because of a Microsoft update.  So 
I had to reinstall Windows.  As you may remember, first you have to 
format the disk partition you want to use, and then install Windows, and 
then Windows reboots itself and presumably expects to find some program 
on the bootsector which relaods Windows and continues the installation 
process.  But the program on the bootsector of the primary SCSI drive, 
as best as I could figure, was trying to boot Windows from the IDE 
drive.  The only way I could get it to work was to next install the 
booteasy booting program that came with FreeBSD, and then tell it to 
boot to Windows, at which point the Windows installation could finish. 
I doubt that any computer novice could have finished this installation.

Well, sorry for rambling.  I just figure that this is the only place 
that anyone is even remotely likely to find my story interesting.



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Stephen Montgomery-Smith
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