3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1043
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ivan Marsh wrote on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:08:39 -0500
Unproven but probable. Certainly trolls can be users too; in fact the best ones are, if only because they love to nitpick. Hopefully my attempt helps a lurker or two. :-)
Well, in that case I can put it down to "argument ad ignorantiam":
Unfortunately that's as close as that particular set of fallacies get to "I wasn't paying attention to the installer". :-)
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:00:09 +0000, The Ghost In The Machine ...and probably shouldn't try it for the first time...
Now if you'll excuse me I need to find some porridge to put sugar on...
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:43:46 -0500, flatfish+++ People learn more by losing, not from winning. If people just click through dialog boxes and screens without...
Hi, what I'd like to do is to get some input with read commands and then put them all inside a .txt file, each entry in a new line, to create something like...
Not everyone knows how to parbreastion a hard drive. It's not like the swimming reflex. :-) However, ignorance is curable:
is probably as good as any; it's section 4.c of the x86 variant of the Gentoo handbook, and walks through an instruction sequence using 'fdisk', which is a common tool on Linux systems. (The given sequence destroys all parbreastions, so be forewarned. However, reading between the lines is easily done, if one can actually read.)
I would hope other distros have comparable help manuals, and it's not like fdisk doesn't have builtin help, either -- it's sparse but very usable; just hit 'm' as the prompt suggests.
Erm...how does one run fdisk under Windows? Did you mean running fdisk while booted from a LiveCD on a system with Windows already installed?
The possible types, AFAIK, are:
06 - fat16 07 - hpfs-ntfs 0C - W95 Fat32 (LBA)
These are the relevant ones for a Windows desktop, but they're a little buried, and the casual user might not know about "NTFS". One would hope, however, that he notices that the spindle has no empty space. :-)
One interesting utility is 'ntfsresize'. I've used it successfully for one of my work desktops (a Dell Dimension GX280 that came with XP only).
Most users are familiar with at least some of Windows' foibles, at the desktop level; this is an unfortunate consequence of Windows having over 90% of the market, making it the de facto standard. Comparisons are inevitable.
Personally, I would hope for a reversal of the situation and some very clear specifications, but it will take time to educate the populace, which will of course have to include how to locate said specifications. The Gentoo Handbook is a step in that direction.
-- Windows Vista. Because it's time to refresh your hardware. Trust us.