[Coco] DriveWire

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 13 April 2009, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>----- "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net> wrote:
>> From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:14:32 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire
>>
>> > Just show me an example of somebody
>> > (not a Microsoft employee or contractor)
>> > installing a supported Microsoft OS on
>> > bare metal in this millennium.
>>
>> Been there, done that.  98SE & XP Pro 64 bit.
>>
>> > I can do it with any of a dozen
>> > Linux distros.
>>
>> In most cases LINUX is easier, but I have one unit that runs a "test"
>> of XP
>> Pro quite well, but chokes on LINUX.
>
>Tell me the MOBO models.  I can't think of one that will "test" XP and won't
> run Linux.  Does it "run" XP?  And while 98SE isn't quite "this
> millennium", I'd like some details as to what kind of bare metal you
> inflicted that onto.  As in a decade and a half, I haven't found a system
> (386 & up) that wouldn't boot Linux if it booted Windows 3.11 or later.

IIRC linux won't run on a 386-SX, or at least I couldn't get it to fly many 
years ago.  W-95 ran on it ok.  Glacial speeds though...

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