Jeff Vian wrote:
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 20:04 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Jeff Vian wrote:
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 18:56 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
I stand by my recommendations. First get a system which can boot
WinXP, and can boot Linux using GRUB on a floppy. Then install the
GRUB on the boot sector of the intended boot disc, and let the
XP boot manager manage the boot. When that works, if one is
adventurous enough, one can try saving the MBR to a file on a floppy,
and try installing GRUB (or whatever) into the MBR. It won't work
from there on my machine. If GRUB won't work from there, then the MBR
can be replaced.
All of us have different hardware. Some hardware is picky and has to be
treated with kid gloves and babied. Most is very standard and "just
works".
I think the use of the term FsCKED UP DISINFORMATION was extreme.
I have never used that term, Read my post again.
FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) hardly has the meaning you are
attributing to it (in most circles at least). FUD has been around as an
acronym for a LONG time with the meaning I use -- more than ten years
IIRC. I believe it was originally attributed to the way M$ spread doubt
about Linux many years ago, with the intent of keeping users on a system
they already knew and were familiar with and discouraging competition.
(Are you familiar with the anti-trust lawsuit.) It may have been
bastardized to your meaning, but yours is not the original, and
certainly not what I said.
What anti-trust suit? It was only a lawyer parade where the outcome was
pre-determined and was only to give the illusion that something was
being done to break up unfair Monopolies. I fell for it until the later
part of the show. A lot of people became rich and nothing changed for
the better.
Jim
--
Tomorrow's computers some time next month.
-- DEC
