Jason
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:15, Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
Instead, XP users hit this when they add hardware and the 'automatic detection' goes to work. Good examples are the 3Com cards that have you put a CD in *before* installing the hardware so that the hardware detection can be tweaked or disabled. This wreaks havoc on a reinstall because you end up physically pulling hardware out of the box and trying to put it back in the right order in order to avoid the plug and play from killing the install. On Linux, the cards just work.
A little funny issue from me too,,,
Did a webupdate from microsoft on a computer running XP Home yesterday, and it did a "upgrade" on a mouse driver (from the microsoft site)
The update needed a restart, and when I pressed the OK button the PC went to the "blue screen". When I rebooted it, it went fine until the XP logo showed up, then the computer restarted by it self. And restarted and restarted.
I tryed the "last working setup" from the "rescue screen".... And it didn't work either
In the end I had to reinstall!!
Another fun one is to try to install any flavor of windows on a box with no floppy and the latest Adaptec scsi controller (i.e. a typical rack-mount server). Windows will let you add drivers during the install, but the only place you can load them is from a floppy.
