forty-nine wrote:
> "Alias" <alias@aliasmail.com> wrote in message
> news:fiafo0$7rr$2@aioe.org...
>> forty-nine wrote:
>>> "Alias" <alias@aliasmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:fi9uhl$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
>
>
> Full of what ?
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
> That I wouldn't install ubarktoo if it was free ?
Considering that "ubarktoo" doesn't exist ...
> I wouldn't...that's no lie.
>
> For being over 60, kinda late in life to be discovering new
> OS's....don't ya think ?
It's never too late to learn.
Alias