Hello Stewart!

Thursday October 07 1999 19:12, Stewart Honsberger wrote to Sean Dennis:

 SH> have the support loaded for hardware I don't have? Why shouldn't I
 SH> have the choice to later add support for hardware I may get?).

 SH> When I applied a fixpack (12) to OS/2, the video drivers barfed and it
 SH> wouldn't boot. Since OS/2 is GUI based, I was screwed. With Linux, it

Well, not quite. When you boot OS/2 and the little white blob appears, hit
ALT-F1 and select to boot to the command line. Then you can edit anything to
your hearts content. You can also boot to straigt VGA from this.



 SH> If my video drivers under Linux ever were screwed up, it just means
 SH> I'm limited to the console until I can get it fixed. When I do
 SH> eventually replace them with working drivers, I don't even have to
 SH> re-boot for them to take effect.

See Above.. ;-)

 SH> I could go on, but it would start to sound like I'm bashing OS/2,
 SH> which I'm not. The only expendable OS on my hard drive is Win'98. ;>

I expended mine.. ;-) I'll take that gig and put it to good use somewhere
else..

 SD>> I'll keep the BBS on my OS/2 machine


 SH> Also great for gating Internet bandwidth between the two machines. If
 SH> you have an internet account, it's a great tool. When you're
 SH> configuring something on one machine, you can have a HOWTO or
 SH> newsgroup posting or... open on the other monitor.

I do this with my OS/2 machine right now.. But I really need that new computer 
to put linux on. ;-) This dual boot is really starting to bother me..


Have a good day!!
Mike
Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de
This OS/2 system uptime is 1d 4h 37m 50s 156ms (en).

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