I also had a Win98 and Red Hat dual boot environment here at the office. Never had a hitch really , except for the fact that DOS seemed to treat my Linux partitions as extended DOS , and when I ran scandisk , that is when all hell broke loose ..... Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Keating" <hosting@j2solutions.net> To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:26 PM Subject: Re: Red Hat 8 - Instability - AGAIN > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:11:39 -0300 > medina@campinas.unimed.com.br wrote: > > > I have to tell you that I love Linux, but sometimes I lose my temper > > with it. I have dual boot ( RH and Win98 ) and my Win98 is much > > more stable than RH. They use the same hardware for 3 years (or more), > > and RH is the only one that hangs ! Strange because it suppose be > > Win98... :-))) > > Not really. Win98 seems to be able to run on failing hardware. I've > come across plenty of times where win98 will happily run, and crash > every now and again, or corrupt files every now and again, whereas > Linux, if I tried to compile something, would throw errors. Find it > it's due to a bad stick of ram that has been in the box for a while. I > never knew why certain files would get trashed on Windows, but as soon > as I replaced the ram, everything was happy again. I think it's because > Win98 doesn't put enough checksums or whatnot, and doesn't catch > hardware errors like it should. > > -- > Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE > For Web Services and Linux Consulting, Visit --> j2Solutions.net > Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) > > Was I helpful? Let others know: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
