| From: | Anthony Prime |
| Date: | 27 Sep 2000 at 23:14:45 |
| Subject: | Re: A QNX Question |
Hi Andy
> > I`m currently dual booting Win98 and Mandrake Linux (using Grub as a
> > boot menu)
> > 1. Will I be ok to install QNX without rendering Linux unavailable and
> As far as I can tell (having got Win98 going again only to find the
> download of QNX was corrupt), you can install it from Windows on the
> Windows partition, and it just gives you a choice when you boot Windows of
> QNX/Windows (Someone's going to hit me if I say Windows any more, right?
> ;)
> Doesn't effect Linux, as far as I can tell.
If you`re wrong you`re in big trouble. I`m going away now to install
QNX. If I can I`ll mail to confirm I`m still A-OK, but if I don`t mail
back in the next 24 hours, you`d better buy a false moustace and dark
glasses ;)
Thanks for the advice
> > 2. If I do Install it can I uninstall it out easily?
>
> If you install it under Windows, there's an uninstall option there
> somewhere. (I spotted that much. Disturbing that just about the only
> uncorrupted thing there was the uninstall program ;) If you install it on
> a separate partition, erm, ignore the partition? Format it and put
> something else on it?
Nah. I`m all out of partitions and I don`t like the idea of resizing
live ones one bit... particularly when it`s currently a FAT32 partition
:/
> Now, how long before I get my free QNX CD? As I really can't be bothered
> downloading it again from their terribly slow server. Not if it's going to
> screw up and corrupt the file again.
If you`re downloading 91mb from a slow server it might be quicker to fly
over and pick one up ;)
Anthony W. Prime
anthony@prime.clara.co.uk
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