From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 12:37:04 EDT
W2k is an excellent OS as far as any MS OS goes..
and most machines on the road in a larger environment need to be stable..
they do one or a set of jobs..
they don't need the flash of WXP..
and the additional memory and time to upgrade is not called for..
if i were doing this i would either get a preload CD and if it is sufficient
make a bunch of copies and start running the recovery on at least 10 or 15
thinkpads at a time..
it would all be done by the end of one day.. well, ok, a LONG day and maybe
a bit more..
but it would be done..
if the corporate preload requires some apps and tweaking, i would do that on
one machine, make a bunch of copies and then proceed..
doing a disk to disk clone of the finished OS would take way too much time
and fiddling with thinkpads and 2nd HDD adapters and HDD's and so forth when
they ALL have CD's..
all this is just my morning rant.. :-)
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lingenfelter" <mwl_at_tuckahoe.blwd.k12.pa.us>
To: "Steve C." <stevec50_at_yahoo.com>; "Thinkpad" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:21 AM
Subject: RE: Preloads
> True,
>
> 2K has been out for a while but the resources needed for XP and the fact
> that the service pack has just been released makes me leery. I have XP in
> my SLA and Office XP but it is over kill for most of my users. They just
> are not ready. I could have chose WIN2K as the original OS but I was not
> ready and I saved almost $200 per machine. That paid for my SLA.
Hindsight
> is 20/20.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve C. [mailto:stevec50_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:00 AM
> To: mwl_at_tuckahoe.blwd.k12.pa.us
> Subject: Re: Preloads
>
>
> I wouldn't exactly call Win2k an upgrade, it's two
> years old. Ancient in computer time. Don't you have
> access to XP? It's much better.
> Anyway, before you do it you had better check for
> drivers on the IBM website for that model. If they
> don't have Win2K drivers, and they may not since it
> originally had Win98, you will never be able to get
> the sound or built-in modems to work and the video
> will only run in default 16 color VGA mode since Win2K
> don't have drivers for many laptop functions. If it
> can't be determined for sure that Win2K is supported
> then try just one at first to see how it works. If it
> don't install drivers for everything you may have to
> resort to WinME instead. It has a lot more drivers but
> still not all the ones you need for every laptop.
>
> --- Mike Lingenfelter <mwl_at_tuckahoe.blwd.k12.pa.us>
> wrote:
> > I'm facing the prospect of upgrading 100+ ThinkPad
> > A21m -GSU's to WIN2k.
> > They were previously preloaded with WIN98. I
> > possess a Microsoft SLA for my
> > district that gives me upgrade rights for all my
> > PC's. Is it possible to
> > purchase an IBM CD that has the WIN2K preload for
> > this animal an do the
> > upgrades 'fairly' painless or do I need to fdisk
> > everything and start from
> > scratch?
> >
> > Mike Lingenfelter
> >
> > Mike Lingenfelter
> > Technology Coordinator/
> > Network Administrator
> > Bellwood-Antis School District
> >
> > v-mail x-4324
> >
>
>
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