[Coco] DriveWire

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

----- "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.
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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net