forty-nine wrote:
> "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.
>
It's useful enough that I can use it to tell you you're full of it.
Alias