[techtalk] windows sucks

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:04:29PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Conor Daly thought:
> Yes, I *know* 2.2Gb won't fit on a CDROM but you should be able to gzip
> the image into less than 640Mb and then use 'zcat' to restore it.

Another thing I didn't think of earlier.  The windows install files are
usually included on the HD so windows can install software when you try to
change your IP address or something.  Do a search for *.cab  You should
find about 60 or so called win98xx.cab in a single directory (usually
c:\windows\options\cabs).  write that *entire* directory to a CD, make
sure there's a "setup.exe" (some machines come without the installer to
cripple this idea.  If that is the case, you need to get the extra files
elsewhere) and at reinstall time, use *your* recovery CD.

Conor
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