[thelist] Install/uninstall ie6

Michael Pemberton mpember at phreaker.net
Wed Aug 29 10:40:30 CDT 2001


To take it a step futher, you could use a program called the Extended OS
Loader (www.xosl.org) to switch between the different os setups.

This is really handy when you have more than one drive and want to fool
it into booting from the slave drive.

Hershel Robinson wrote:
> 
> > One method of limiting the level of destruction caused by a system
> > failure is the separate the various parts of your system into individual
> > partitions (or even better, drives).
> >
> > For example, here's my current setup:
> >     1: Win2000 (active and operational setup)
> >     2: Programs (all my software / games)
> >     3: Data (All my data and application config files if possible)
> >     4: Win2000 (Base version for easy recovery)
> >
> > This means that if, for some reason, my win2000 setup gets stuffed, I
> > will always be able to recover as much of my system as possible.
> 
> I do the same thing and it has saved me more than once.  I could also
> suggest that your active partition be initially setup to run DOS.  (for
> those of you too young to remember, MS-DOS is the name of an operating
> system produced by Microsoft in the olden days--for the most part, it
> actually worked!)  Then if something *really* tragic happens, you can at
> least boot up and look at your system a bit before you have to reinstall
> everything.
> 
> Hershel

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