Another Tale of Woe

From: Michael P Gabriel (axipolti_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: 16 Jun 2004 17:02:29 -0700

Actually, it is my second!!

Hi!

I wanted to get my 77 year old brain exercised so it doesn't turn to
gorgonzola cheese when I get old.(er?)

So I got hold of a copy of Suse Linux. 7.0. I tried three times to
load it, but each time I received an, "RPM error", message and I was
forced me to reboot. Bye Suse!!

Then I got a free copy of Mandrake 10.0. I loaded once successfully,
even though it showed a "Guppie" error, but barely had a chance to
dig into it. When it came to bringing it up the next day, it wouldn't
boot. So, I loaded it a second time. That time, when it was all loaded
and ready to run..it froze to a light muddy colored screen . Yikes!.
So, I decided to give it up because I really don't think Linux is for
me. And it isn't really ready for prime time!

Now I'm stuck with a 40g hdd that CANNOT be formatted. Partition Magic
gives me an error message...before it even opens. My V-Com Disk
Utility program can't do a thing. I tried to get the WHOLE disk
formatted when I loaded WIN XP on lonely 2g partition. No dice! I
have a program from Western Digital that creates a boot disk which
will do the job. It tells me to insert a formatted floppy, I do, and
then it reads there is not enough room on the floppy, try a different
medium. I reformatted the floppy and tried again. Same nonsense. It
wouldn't work when I burned it on a CD, and then booted the CD rom
drive.

Must I throw away a 40G hard drive?

Mike

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