From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sat May 08 1999 - 00:01:51 EDT
John..
unzipping anything is not the way its meant to happen..
normally you can just boot from the CD and everything is more or less
automatic..
the only reason to unzip anything is when you are doing sometihng
unintended...
like i just recovered the original 755CE preload to a drive for a 755CE that
has no CD directly available..
most OS installs ARE very sinmple these days.. its just when we getting
creative to do the unexpected that these things become more than mundane..
:-)
John Kim wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 1999, Ronald W. Heiby wrote:
> >
> > This is a common mis-conception among those who have not actually read
> > the license agreement to which they agreed. You did not, in fact, buy
> > a "one-user license for Windows". Instead, you bought a one-system
> > license for Windows, specifically the one system with which it came.
> >
> > Personally, I think that stinks even more.
>
> Yeah, it does. :-(
>
> Bill: About unzipping the files on the recovery disk.
> That's what I meant about jumping through hoops. Installing
> an OS should be pop in the CD and go. That's the way it
> worked with older versions of Windows, that's the way it works
> with standalone versions of Win98, that's the way it works
> with Linux. It's a hassle to first install a minimal DOS or
> Win or Linux system to partition the drive, unzip and copy the
> CD contents to disk, then reboot to install.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim_at_stormhaven.org
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