On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:24:28 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi Eric,
>Hi Johnson, I did not intend to insult people, I just >wanted to say "most people will not want to delete Windows >if it came preinstalled with their PC" / "Most people do >not download DOS to 'clean' their PC and remove Windows". Your message was misleading, we discuss with pure technical possibilities only. Maybe someone feel unsafe if making dual boot because they may lost their "WinXP pre-install partition", in fact today's PC manufacturer won't give you an installation CD unless you pay them. This is why a complete and test thoroughly procedure (or a dual boot CD) important. We need to take a lot of consideration before doing anything to the hard disk. For example, we may need to GHOST the whole hard disk before we start, I believe that's rather small, after compression it should be less than 800MB, a US60 can buy a FLASH DISK or a COMPACT FLASH to store it, and boot the driver directly from flash or floppy if the BIOS not new enough. So I think Mark is doing something great, I hope I can help to test as soon as possible but I got a trip to China soon, I may need to start a weeks (luckily only one week, praise GOD) later when I return, I'll prepare a new hard disk to try the procedure. >I noticed that DOS / Win3 boots quite slow from USB (slow >BIOS drivers). Disk writes are slow, too, and even un- >reliable on some BIOSes. My comment is also related to >Knoppix versus Linux-on-harddisk... Of course Knoppix is >far more complex than DOS, but loading 10s of MBs of Linux >into RAM from CDROM takes quite a bit of time and resources. That's why DOS still exist, because most of the Linux distribution is huge. DOS is small and robust to do the GHOST thing or rescue data. Copy a few megabyte from flash disk is acceptable to most people, and that's enough to backup the whole pre-installed partition. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
