"Alias" <alias@aliasmail.com> wrote in message news:fi9uhl$f31$2@aioe.org...
> TONY TROMBOLI wrote:
>> <krotch.kricket@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:a95a95db-cd2f-4cba-ba4c-c4b09bb07855@w28g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>>> If installing Ubuntu be careful for hdisk corruption. It will also
>>> over write your Windows partition rendering your data unrecoverable.
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s....20/+bug/84603
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s....15/+bug/53102
>>>
>>> Linux, the operating system that keeps you busy.
>>
>>
>> TRUE. I tried a Ubuntu "Live CD" not too long ago to see what all the
>> hype was about. It booted fine in my AMD 3.4Ghz + 1-Gig RAM machine that
>> currently has Windows XP installed. I played around with Ubuntu and it
>> ran OK. It was running from the CD so I could understand why it wasn't
>> very zippy. The video was pretty slow using the generic driver from the
>> CD but I could probably fix that eventually if I wanted to. It saw my
>> NTFS drive which was neat at the time.
>>
>> So I'm done playing with Ubuntu and tell it to shutdown and it does. It
>> tells me to remember to remove the Live CD which I do. The next time that
>> I reboot my computer it simply doesn't boot. The boot sector or something
>> was hosed. In the end I had to re-install Windows to FIX whatever it was
>> that Ubuntu Live CD screwed up.
>>
>> Yeah - That's a serious "bug" they have there.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Your problem had nothing to do with the Live CD. I have run Live CDs on
> dozens of computers with no ill effects at all. The Live CD doesn't
> install *anything* unless you tell it to and you probably did.
>
> Alias
And even if you tell it to install...It Still installs Nothing useful !
You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't.