What I finally did...

Old drive slaved on new box.
Run FAST (files & settings transfer).
Copy executable from floppy and park it on the slaved drive's root directory. Note that, if this does any good (keep reading) we can simply save the executables to a networked share for later use.
Shutdown.
Old drive as master (WD so <grumble> rejumper...)
Boot WinNT40WS
Run FAST. Save to disk.
Shutdown.
Old drive as slave. Note rejumper....
Run FAST again, install new settings.
Discover user has changed names. Note that none of the USER.DAT files (user registry entries) were copied over. This is a freakin' joke.
End up copying over stuff by hand.
Spend 45 minutes wrestling with Windows ACLs when Eudora chokes over security issues. Note that WinXP's own security interface is sufficiently bletcherous that a series of chmods and chowns in Cygwin is far more effective. Think we've got most of it.
Note that Phoenix, the new Mozilla lightweight browser, doesn't run as a non-admin user. Pity. Nice client.
Wrap.

Post #59,274 by kmself 10/24/02 10:00:43 PM Reply	What I finally did... \r\n Old drive slaved on new box. \r\n Run FAST (files & settings transfer). \r\n Copy executable from floppy and park it on the slaved drive's root directory. Note that, if this does any good (keep reading) we can simply save the executables to a networked share for later use. \r\n Shutdown. \r\n Old drive as master (WD so <grumble> rejumper...) \r\n Boot WinNT40WS \r\n Run FAST. Save to disk. \r\n Shutdown. \r\n Old drive as slave. Note rejumper.... \r\n Run FAST again, install new settings. \r\n Discover user has changed names. Note that none of the USER.DAT files (user registry entries) were copied over. This is a freakin' joke. \r\n End up copying over stuff by hand. \r\n Spend 45 minutes wrestling with Windows ACLs when Eudora chokes over security issues. Note that WinXP's own security interface is sufficiently bletcherous that a series of `chmod`s and `chown`s in Cygwin is far more effective. Think we've got most of it. \r\n Note that Phoenix, the new Mozilla lightweight browser, doesn't run as a non-admin user. Pity. Nice client. \r\n Wrap. \r\n --\r\nKarsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Post #59,345 by static 10/25/02 1:56:50 AM Reply	See, this is why I don't support Windows. Two family members excepted. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #59,427 by tseliot 10/25/02 12:56:28 PM Reply	Last step 16. Gave management a dollar value on time spent bringing forward colors and font sizes. Told them I would not do it again. Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #59,602 by static 10/26/02 4:17:03 AM Reply	Last step + 1 17. Told them again in 6 months that I've already told them I wouldn't do it again. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."

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