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| DATE | 2004-08-31 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] Mepis
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That seems to have helped.
The second hard drive wasnt being recognized (doi!).
XP doesnt boot now, but it seems the people I work with have taken a liking to
Mepis. Just wait till they get a load of Suse 9.1.
I gave a Mepis CD to a microsoft major. The guy cant wait to get home and
install it on his home computer. He works for some place doing MS support,
they want to back up their IT on Linux. He was very impressed with how Mepis
recognized the microturd network.
The next step is to get a few PCs running Linux. Then convert the stuff we
use behind the desk to assign students computers to Linux based. The back end
DB, etc.
When I first started talking about Linux everyone was asking me where to get
it. I told them 'just go to www.linuxiso.org and download it'. This dialogue
went on and on and on with no end in sight. "Just download it!" I would say
in frustration, "your a computer science major". They would ask me, I would
tell them where to go but no action on their part. Today I installed Linux on
the computer I gave out a few Mepis CD's and now they are interested. Its
that very very first step thats the biggest hurdle. They were even impressed
with the command line. Go figure. You could almost see their interest for
computers reignite. I have very little doubt that proprietary software is
probably one of the biggest banes of our society. How does someone *not*
loose interest when one is constantly being told 'its been done already and
there is no point in doing it anymore'. The passion for discovery and
development goes right out the window.
Seems like the self-proclaimed Linux desktop experts were wrong about Linux
*not* being ready for the desktop. Just plain wrong.
How do you quantify something like this?
I may drag some of their asses to technite just yet.
Steve M
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:09:50 +0100, Inker, Evan wrote
> Check the BIOS Drive setup for hdd
> You can also Boot from the WinXP CD to re-install the original WinXP
> Boot loader and call Mepis from WinXP Boot loader
>
> Regards,
>
> Evan M. Inker (New York) x. 4615
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Milo [mailto:slavik914-at-mrbrklyn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:15 PM
> To: Michael Richardson; Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
> Cc: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> Subject: RE: [hangout] Mepis
>
> The GUI gives the option of installing on the MBR which I use.
>
> hda (XP) is recognized.
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:54:34 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote
> > Does it show both Mepis and Windows XP? Also is it on the Master Boot
> > Record?
> >
> > --
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> >
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Milo [mailto:slavik914-at-mrbrklyn.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:06 PM
> > > To: Michael Richardson; Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
> > > Cc: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> > > Subject: RE: [hangout] Mepis
> > >
> > >
> > > Installed it on hda. That is where it should go correct?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:48:15 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote
> > > > Where did you install the boot loader?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > "In The Business World
> > > > An Executive Knows Something About Everything,
> > > > A Technician Knows Everything About Something,
> > > > And the Switchboard Operator Knows Everything."
> > > >
> > > > No one person is smarter than their team!
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Steve Milo [mailto:slavik914-at-mrbrklyn.com]
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:59 PM
> > > > > To: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
> > > > > Cc: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> > > > > Subject: Re: [hangout] Mepis
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > New problem.
> > > > > GRUB appeared to have installed correctly. But when I reboot
> > > > > the
> > > system
> > > > > there
> > > > > is a GRUB error 21.
> > > > >
> > > > > There are two hard drives, XP on hda and Mepis on hdd.
> > > > >
> > > > > Steve M
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:36:14 -0400, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
> > > wrote
> > > > > > Did you try fdisk?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ruben
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:59:08AM -0500, Steve Milo wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It doesnt seem to allow disk partitioning.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Steve M
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