Re: uninstalling Ximian Desktop 2

From: David LOney (d.loney_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/19/04


Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 03:31:42 GMT

davidl wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I need some advice before wiping my drive in order to start over: How can
> I get rid of this software which ruined my SUSE 9.0 Gnome desktop?
>
> Beside other issues, it takes forever to load apps, some won't open at
> all, only problems. I'm glad that I didn't actually purchase the full
> version, that would make me really mad.
>
> I searched google and google groups, but there seem to be no easy answer
> how this can be uninstalled. Also, the ximian website gives no advice how
> to get rid of this junk. No offense, I like their Evolution, but this is
> pretty disappointing experience - it looks sharp, but it doesn't work.
>
> (I'm using 100% compatible Intel system; i815/P4-1.6GHz/512MB RDRAM/32MB
> ATI, 80GB HDD - no problems with SUSE alone or any other OS in that
> matter)
>
> thanks
> Dave

You mean wipe and really wipe and start over? fdisk is your answer. fdisk
will wipe out formats and partitions and leave a hard drive data almost
unrecoverable. Just follow instructions.

Some operating systems like to see hda formated in FAT32 before they can see
the drive.

 -David L

 



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