J D wrote: > yeah, you're right. i'm gonna e-mail an expert list about this. the only > problem is that i'm so short on time (who would have thought becoming an > engineer would require so much time??? ;) ). man, i picked a bad time to > install linux. wait, there's never a bad time to get away from the > frustrating blue screen of death every time you go to compile code you just > wrote. too bad i can't submit my programming homework in unix. damn this > university's use of windows! Speak with your professor(s). I don't see why they'ld prevent you from doing your homework with Linux. The school should be unbiased in this respect, unless your program is MCSE or something specific to MS. If it's a general university program, then the profs would need to be dorks for refusing valid work done on Linux. Linux is growing in use and popularity, and is based on and very similar to Unix in many respects, with Unix being a platform used considerably in industry; more important than MS anyway. If you were in a MIS program, specializing in office computing, then MS would be understandable, albeit Linux will become competitive in this area, too. For engineering, I'm surprised they're not using a Unix variant, albeit many engineering firms began converting much of their infrastructure to MS a couple or few years ago, but only due to pricing, as far as I was told and know (now, MS Windows 2000 Server is expensive, albeit Windows 2000 WS may be less expensive than Unix WSs, but certainly not less expensive than Linux). If you'ld really like to be able to do your work with Linux, then ask, before jumping to absolute conclusions. If the school's not going to give you a MCSE, then the school shouldn't have any moral right to prevent you from using Linux. If the profs refuse and you have a few more years of schooling involved, then you might consider contesting and appealing to the next higher level of the court. Maybe your profs don't know Unix or Linux, and they might use this as a basis to refuse work done on Linux, but that's only a lazy approach, instead of a moral one. They should encourage students to use Linux, because schooling is already expensive enough without needing to purchase expensive OSs, like Windows 2000. mike > > > >From: Mike Corbeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still > >Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:55:38 -0400 > > > >BILL wrote: > > > > > J D wrote: > > > > > > > okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has > > > > worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got > >bored and > > > > tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to > > > > reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! > > > >I would not suggest doing that, ever. There are better, more appropriate, > >ways > >of reinstalling linux or any OS. If you do rm -rf /, then this means to > >remove > >the root directory and I've never done this, but know that rm -rf /* will > >remove > >everything under the root directory. rm -rf / probably does the same > >thing, but > >based on other contexts, this would also remove /. In either case, this > >would > >mean not being able to shutdown or reboot the system using any command, > >because > >everything would be gone. > > > >You've got to explain your problem, because as you should obviously see, > >there's > >no description left of your problem, if you ever described it. > > > >You want help. Help others to help you. Explain what your problem is, > >with more > >detail. > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > Okay, I don't truley know if this will help your MAJOR problem,but as a > >newbie > > > I have had times where I too did somthing somewheres that sent my > >partitions > > > kablooey.Tried lots of stuff that did n't work and wound up > >'reinstalling" but > > > installing another distro ;like Caldera,and letting it clean up the > >partitions > > > when it installed,then I went back and reinstalled mandrake after the > >fact > > > when I saw that the Caldera was successful. I've done this a few times > >and it > > > has worked for me > > > ,but then I/m a newbie,and only came up with this on instinct,couldn't > >tell > > > you if it did anything to my machine or not .Don't think it has since I > >now > > > have a nice Mandrake 70 install thats working to ,my satisfaction > > > .Good luck if you decide to try this. > >Bill > > > >Not instinct; just desperation. > > > >This approach should not be required. You're better off asking in the > >expert > >mailing list, to learn how to properly handle your problems with Mandrake, > >even > >at the install level, before bothering with installing another distribution > >to > >try to recover. > > > >There are ways to recover or to do successful installs. > > > >mike > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
