Hey guys... Thanks for all the responses and I got it figured out; my buddy went there and thought it was a Quick-time like player needed to view the page. Nothing happened and so he never told me about it. But I would think a program install would show you something...? Anyway, from reading your emails, I got kinda interested, my main question is; will all my programs run on Debian? If so, I might try it out. Thanks again for the replies- RJ Matthew K Poer wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 16:33 -0700, RJ Gillis wrote:Hopefully you can forward this to the correct party; everyone I've tried gets my message returned stating: "you are not subscribed to this list". Yet, I cannot find a way to subscribe, nor do I wish to. Thanks- RJ Hi, I am hoping you can help me. I recently had to use 'safe mode' and when rebooting, was offer the choice of 'windows' or 'debian installer'. I have never seen or heard of debian before and no one else uses my pc, so the question is; how did this get on my pc? I cruised your site and I know it's an OS, but not how it got here. The only hardware changes I've made recently are a new monitor and graphics card; neither disc includes debian on it. Any clues? It sure is a mystery to me. Thanks- RJAre you sure you don't have geeky friend's messing with you, trying to have you use Debian (Linux)? I can't say for sure how the Debian Installer got onto your computer, but it may have to do with the Debian Windows Installer project, check www.goodbye-windows.com, which basically loads the Debian OS installer from within MS Windows. It's neat... if you want it. As far as I know, no one has forced this on anyone unwilling. (Though there would be irony in forcing people to use a secure OS via a security hole in an insecure OS) To me this sounds like your opportunity to try out Debian GNU/Linux. If you're not interested, just select to load Windows. Check out here for how to fix your boot.ini file and go to Windows automatically when your PC boots up: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022 If you've accidentally stumbled upon Linux, why not give it a shot? I'll tell you one thing: you won't not know when you've installed a second operating system! (I've CC-ed to what I think might be the correct mailing lists for such a topic. If you reply, keep please keep these addresses in the CC field) |