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  From: Daniel <daniel@webmedia.com.au>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:06:40 +0930

Re: The more you use it the easier it becomes (Network Cards in Linux)

David Newall wrote:

> Curious.  It took me over two days to install one network card in
> a WinNT 4.0 machine.  The message, "Insert Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
> CD-ROM into drive A" was not particularly helpful given that it

Yes... the other day I reinstalled win95 on an empty disk. I don't have
a floppy disk drive. The CD isn't bootable. What I did was to fire up
linux, and then copy the entire cd through /mnt/cdrom onto /mnt/dos. I
then booted dos and installed windows.

Windows then, as a sign of appreciation to linux, overwrote the MBR.

Literally 1 hour into my first windows session, it blue screened, trying
to open an otherwise fine CD.

It was the first total system lock I've seen, after six months of
exclusively using Linux...

Daniel.

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