[UCLA-LUG] install fest

[Justin Boseant]

> wasn't this the computer that fred nuked?  i believe she was at our last
thought that wasy you?!

> and then would installing windows even help her?  lets assume she has a normal
> oem computer and they, of course, installed office for her so she could do
> physics labs, but did not give her the cd.  this means that unless she had the
> resources to actually buy ms-office, she won't have ms-office to install and do
> her labs...
Unless she has the resourcefulness to borrow a copy and use that cd-burner
attached to her computer....(I myself would never dream of anything like
that, but who was it that had a burned copy of NT??)

> especially considering the windows install is absurdly stupid and will wipe out
> ever partition b/c windows *must* be on the first partition and refuses to
Create the partition as /dev/hda1 which grabs cylinders after /dev/hda2
(/boot)...then make sure you create a boot disk or have a rescue disk
available for after the Win install....then reload lilo

It can be done, and vmware may run a little slower than she'd
like....however, I believe Drew mentioned using StarOffice last year on
his labs.  I was able to use SOffice for most of the lab requirements, the
only thing I didn't find was "Regression Statistics"....another example of
how M$ owns *.edu (okay maybe not everyone but...)


-justin

P.S. nothing here was meant to offend anyone....but I think we may want to
be careful about offering Win installs for copyright reasons...they
install, we can offer pointers (like making a "windows swap partition")