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Install Linux in 4 Minutes

Posted by Hemos on from the wham-bam-thank-ya-mam dept.

Bill Clarke wrote to us about WholeLinux system they unveiled at LinuxWorld. From a "cheap" CD-ROM even, they can install Red Hat Linux in 4 minutes, plus another 2 for things like Apache, Sendmail etc. Heh-run around with one of these things at your office/school. See how long it takes for the NT people to reinstall. *grin*

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  1. NT reinstall times. by Shoeboy · · Score: 5

    See how long it takes for the NT people to reinstall. *grin*
    Less time than you'd think. I admin NT for a living and we have a super quick method of getting NT onto any system.

    1. Chalk out a inverse pentagram inside a circle on the floor.
    2. Place a lit candle at each point of the pentagram.
    3. Place the computer in question in the center of the pentagram with the case off.
    4. Chant "Yog Sothoth Neblod Zin." while sprinkling the blood of a freshly slain rooster on the motherboard.

    This works in under 5 minutes for intel hardware. I once managed to get NT onto a VAX 780 this way as well, but it took a few hours.

    --Shoeboy

  2. NT 5 by CmdData · · Score: 4

    We just got a copy of NT 5 server edition and it rocks. We loaded several applications on it and then we did a lot of things to corrupt over 85% of the system and application files and the system did what is called self-repairing. The application binaries were repaired from the corrupted state. We used HEX editors to screw up binaries all over the system and as soon as we would screw on up the system would detect the screwed up file/binary and it would repair it. That is awesome. Can't beat that.