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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org