I don't usually, but... 10043

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:14:47 +0000, Rich Bell

First, you are too stupid to live - you obviously didn't read what I wrote. The laptop had XP on it when it went bad; he was using it to administer his email server, via Cygwin, when it happened. He had not even tried to install Linux on it at that point. He did not try to install Linux on it until he came to my place for lunch the following day, ie Sunday.

You'd better, arsehole. because it's the truth. Or are you calling my brother, a better man than you will ever be in your life, a liar?

For the hard of understanding - in other words, you - he bought the laptop with a view to installing Linux on it. He simply had not got round to doing so before; he's been busy decorating his house, for one thing.

XP trashed the drive, then yes, it's XP's fault, to some extent. To what exact extent, we don't know, and frankly, don't really care. It was always his intention to run Linux on this laptop - he always wanted to put Fedora on it, because his research had suggested it was fully compatible (several other people had had good results with it, and he's till a committed Fedora users as he was with Red Hat).

It certainly wasn't Linux's fault, that's for sure.

Did you miss the part where I said he was running X via Cygwin on this laptop until the disaster happened, whatver it was? Does that sound to you like he was much interested in keeping XP?

Sure, we could probably have fixed it with Knoppix, but why bother, when he didn't really want XP anyway?

Why don't you try understanding what is written by others before you go screaming and shouting your nonsense.

-- Kier