So you're still running fat 16 then?! That can't be very efficient. And how exactly do you upgrade a hard drive without reformatting? And what exactly do you think you're doing when you're 'upgrading' from one winversion to the next, if not *reinstalling*! However, if your definition if re-installation is reformatting/repartitioning then you can that is very, very possible with linux. There was a transition from the old minix file system to ext2 some time in the distant past, but apart from that I can see no *forcing* reason to reformat! Ever! On Thursday 30 August 2001 03.11, Clint Tinsley wrote:
I think it has been said here that much of problems are attibutable to the wetware at the keyboard, not the operating system, be it Linux or Windows. Incidentally, my Windows 98 SE is system is an upgrade that started out life as DOS/Windows 3.1, upgraded many times with newer system board, hard drives, adapter cards, CD-ROMs, DVD, etc. et. al, and operating systems - Windows95, 95a, 98, 98SE, all without a hit, never formatted C or reinstalled Windows! I don't think I could have done the same thing starting out with an early version of Linux such as Slackware or Calderea Open Base 1.x (I have a copy or each) and made the same claim... There would have definitely been some destructive (read: blow the hard drive) reinstalls a long the way if not recompilations of the operating system.
Clint