Re: Another Tale of Woe

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:17:13 -0400

On 16 Jun 2004 17:02:29 -0700, Michael P Gabriel
  <axipolti@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
The hard drive may well have been the reason for your problems in
installing Linux. 

-- 
Simulations are like miniskirts, they show a lot and hide the essentials.
		-- Hubert Kirrman

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