Re: unsatisfied Linux lover

winston19842005@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 29, 8:35 pm, Matt Giwer <jul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
winston19842...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have installed many HDs both parallel and serial internal and USB external. I
have gone from a bare motherboard and case and installed drives, HD and CD, from
scratch, formatting and then installing linux. I am not a sysadmin and have
learned nothing but reading the fine man pages. Once I was comfortable
installing the first disk the first time all the following were just reviewing
the process to get it right the first time.

All that said, you should not blame linux for your problems with a defective
HD. The worst problem I have ever had was misreading the man page instructions.
All the drives and boards were whatever I had at the time and there were several
RedHats starting with 5.2beta I think. I have had no problems with drives of any
sort.

You are not reading carefully enough. I do not wish to tinker with the
OS. I wish to write applications. The hard drive issues predate Linux
by many years, with a different system, a different OS, and were all
hardware issues anyway. It was the amount of time I spent doing
backups and restores that made me dislike admin tasks so much.

But you didn't get a non-defective HD and solve your problems? I had that problem with Windows as the main reason for a permanent switch to linux and have not had such a problem with linux. If you mean just insurance backups 320G internals are under $100 and externals under $120. cp your working directory every night. It should not be an issue for you.

That isn't to say I haven't had to deal with Linux issues and hard
drives. Ever since moving from LILO to GRUB, you had a whole new tool
to learn that has its own view of things and will easily blow away the
MBR of your drive, rendering it unbootable - I did wish to keep
Windows around - and it wouldn't resurrect even with all the fine
suggestions of this ng. Although I was able to mount the partition in
Linux. Go figure.

I have had both LILO and GRUB and don't know a thing about them because they both always worked as expected. What did you do to make them angry?
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