> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >
> > He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver"
> > for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions
> > to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing
> > happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles,
> > essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that
> > this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to
> > check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb.
> > Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore.
> >
>
> So ? What's the problem ? Thats MicroSoft Way (tm)
> OTHO, the chap who fell into this, got just what he deserved.
> Grief !!!! point and click..
> Do you click .45 and while pointing it at your head.
Geeze.. He installed drivers that were supposidly for his system (NT) and
he followed instruction.. How did he deserve a fried system?
The point was that manufactures will only release UDI for x86 (or merced
or whatever) even if it only requires a recompile.. Unless UDI drivers
must be written in forth..
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