Op 29-11-12 10:21, Bernhard Voelker schreef:
On 11/29/2012 09:26 AM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
from original MS-cd/dvd but lack support for all sorts of things. Some even don't recognise network hardware, so you need a different machine connected to the Net, and an USB-stick to download them. +1
Speaking of XP - yes, the beast is still alive - I even experienced once that it didn't support USB, so I had to burn a CD with the USB driver, and then also installed the drivers for the network card, the sound card, and the video card, ...
Well, and going back to the 'initrd' topic: windows seems to reconfigure itself to boot from the hardware it is installed on - you see that when you try to boot from that disk in another PC. Therefore, I'd say, there is something similar to initrd on Windows, but they didn't do it "right", they simply got it plain wrong.
Have a nice day, Berny
[slightly off-topic, as previous post..] Well, i recently 'discovered' 130GB of spare room on the HDD of my scan&print-server-pc. As it was 'ancient', XP was on it. The discovery made me decide to see if W7 could be put next to it, and afterward oS122, with a windows boot-loader, as i heard a myth, that the service-pack would not install trough a Linux-boot-loader. (SP1 installed so quickly, that i did not have time to install oS122 on it, so i was not able to prove anything about the boot-loader myth...) The W7 compatibility test app showed absence of original chip-set and video-drivers, and audio-driver, suitable for W7. So, W7 did not find drivers for my video-card, which was Intel, Mo-Bo embedded, and cooperated with the chip-set, so the video-memory could be shared from ram via the BIOS, with the original chip-set drivers, and left me with 640x480, very disappointing. Audio-drivers it fetched online by itself, as the Drivers for my Epson Stylus C64 Photo Edition, and even updated drivers for an installed pci-wifi card, that lacked updated XP drivers, and was/is unusable with XP. W7, however, has the opportunity, to even install W95, 98, W2K, millennium and Vista applications via problem-solver>admin settings. With this setting, i was able to install the XP Video-Drivers, so my resolution-settings became available, also 1400x900, my monitors default: Satisfying enough, despite the lack of some 'special' W7 possibilities. And even more: I was able to install my 'ancient' HP Scanjet 4100 C, with the original Win98 drivers, and some XP patches. A thing that was almost impossible with XP, where i had to use the alien 'Vuescan', a really very good app, which works with almost every scanner on the planet, and with all imaginable options, and far superior to the original app, except for the buttons. The buttons now bring the original interface, but they do not work with Vuescan. W7 has also a superior hw detection as to usb apparatus, compared with its predecessors. IMO, the added backward compatibility option is far out the most user friendly option ever seen in a Windows OS. I am 90% sure that all needed drivers to run the pc, are present in the default-kernel (and modules) in oS122, except maybe the scanner-driver, but i still have to check. -- Have a nice day, Oddball. OS: Linux 3.7.0-rc6-5-desktop i686 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@EeePc-Rob-SFN9 Systeem: openSUSE 12.2 (i586) KDE: 4.9.3 "release 520" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org