"Going Forth" or "Run and Hide"

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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 01:17:29 -0500 Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net>
writes:

>Bro Berger [brian_berger@juno.com] is but one of the many that tried to
install it on a machine of his and it didn't take very well at all.... 
>right?
>I'm not sure if it was a beta release or final or what .. but there 

Actually the beta build runs better than the final version. The last disk
the beta testers received is the same as the full install version AND the
upgrade. You have to hunt for the command line for the full install. I
installed Winbeta on a 272 meg drive and it barely fit, so I upgraded the
1 Gig. Sometime this summer, the large disk failed, possibly due to heat.
Sending mail sometimes took 5 minutes. I did everything possible, and
then decided it was fatal and deleted a lot off and then tryed a
reinstall. The disk was decaying daily and all I did made more bad
sectors marked. Since I had registered the disk (yep you should really do
this) then the manufacter honored the 3 year warranty. I got a
reconditioned drive back in just 2 weeks. some have said I was gypped due
to getting a recon drive, but if they repaired my drive, it would have
been reconned. I had to discontinue my ISP since the small drive just
does not have the space. Now that I have the large drive up and running,
I am up and running the final version only, since the agreement said I
could not use Winbeta past Aug 25. I did not really care for Win 95 and
upgraded because I was forced. I have a 486DX-66 with 20 meg of RAM and
now some of the new forced upgrades will not play some media that is now
available on the web. What I am saying is that MS will send you to the
Windows Upgrade site and install new software that will wipe out the old
software. Media Player deleted Sound Recorder, etc. You will find a
"clean install" goes much smoother, but that takes some time. Also the
install program that takes "30-60 mins" took each time over 90.
Apparently Win 98 does not tell time well. You will find the software is
Y2K ok, but if your BIOS fails, software will not help.
I would not quarrel about installing, but make your drive clean first and
do read the readme.doc first. I printed mine so had it to refer to when I
crashed.


<snip>
>So...I'd personally hesitate to install it on any existing Win95 
>machines
>until they make a 2nd release of the Win98 OS upgrade that fixes many of
de bugs that were introduced by the first.


Don't count on that, since there are many bugs that were not in the Beta
that are in the final version. The Beta actually ran faster and never
stalled. I think my greatest need now is more RAM, as the sweet spot for
Win98 seems to be 32. I will let you know on the RH.

Brian Berger
Manchester, NH
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