Re: reasons to hate windows 10

2016-10-23 Thread Stephen M
Well to be honest, WIndows updates always sucked because you constantly rebooted and it takes forever. Unless you have a fast HDD but that's another story entirely. So unless you get into WIndows 10 it's hard to say what sucks about it. Yes I prefer Linux over WIndows but that's my preference. N

Re: install linux on an external drive

2016-10-23 Thread Michael
here is a slight snafu if I dd everything copies exactly as is. My / and /home are on separate directories. I suppose before i reboot I would just erase everything in fstab. I should probably do a swap file instead of swap drive on the external. No? How should I tell it to use the external dr

Re: install linux on an external drive

2016-10-23 Thread Michael
I know it is attempting to load from the external because it is giving me some strange errors now that I have it plugged in when I restart the computer. I get a modprobe error and two different usb errors. Is this a case where I should use dd? On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Michael wrote: > I

reasons to hate windows 10

2016-10-23 Thread Michael
I'm not a computer afficienoto but from my untrained eye I hate that almost every time I have to shut down it has me wait 15 minutes before it shuts down. I think it is updating! -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phx

install linux on an external drive

2016-10-23 Thread Michael
I got the external drive but how do I install linux on it so I can boot from it? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/ma

C/C++ tech list

2016-10-23 Thread Keith Smith
Hi, Looking for suggestions C/C++ user group / mailing list. I have very little experience with C and would like to create some libraries for managing dBase files (.dbf). Thank you in advance!! Keith --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discus