On Monday 04 October 2004 22:26, Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque
wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
...
> > About the only disadvantages of multiple platforms:
> >
> > * If you size them wrong to begin with (too small, and they'll fill
> > up; too large, and it's wasted disk space), it can be probl
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 20:42 -0500, Jeff Golden wrote:
> >
> > A basic rule of life is never burn bridges behind you. Retreat is often
> > a tactical necessity.
> >
>
> This is true but it is rather annoying to have to re-boot into windows
> to do simple things like banking or dial into your offi
> It seem to me that "as much as possible" is the operative phrase here.
> I've been using linux for over five years, debian for the last four, but
> I still retain a minimal windows install.
>
> First, because some commercial entities I (and maybe you) deal with will
> not provide 'standards base
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:23:01PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> ISP, I could access it from linux. Another is my bank, which, although
> windows centric, provides services that I _will not_ do without.
My online banking works 100% with Firefox in Linux. I was shocked -- I
expected if anybody w
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 13:25 -0400, Chris Moffa wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I've a 3-year-old laptop, IBM iSeries ThinkPad with Celeron
> processor. I'm considering completely removing all traces of anything
> Windows-related prior to installing Debian and open-source
> productivity software. I'd lik
Kent West wrote:
Other advantages of multiple partitions:
* If a partition fills up (say, a logging process starts spewing out
log entries by the millions), it only fills up that partition, rather
than "all" partitions, which provides less chance of file system
corruption/damage/lockups/etc.
*
Chris Moffa wrote:
Whatever the protocol, once the OS is removed will the computer boot
from the Debian CD and allow me to install it?
If you can't currently boot off the CD, wiping Windows won't solve that
problem. If you were asking if you need Windows to boot the CD, the
answer is "no;
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:10:25 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
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> From: Chris Moffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:25:14
> -0400
> Subject: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS To:
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> [...[
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:10:25 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
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> From: Chris Moffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:25:14
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> Subject: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS To:
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On (04/10/04 20:09), Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: Chris Moffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:25:14 -0400
> Subject: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS
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- Original Message -
From: Chris Moffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:25:14 -0400
Subject: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> What's the protocol for removing all traces of Windows ME? How's about g
When you repartition the hard disk in order to create the Linux partition, windows will be wiped out.
Ben-Original Message- From: Chris Moffa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Oct 4, 2004 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS Folks, I&
Folks,
I've a 3-year-old laptop, IBM iSeries
ThinkPad with Celeron processor. I'm considering completely removing
all traces of anything Windows-related prior to installing Debian and open-source
productivity software. I'd like to see what the computing experience
is like devoid of Microsoft pr
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