On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:40:24PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:04:00AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:13:50AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote: > > > On 2/2/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote: > > > >I don't suppose you have a grub-disk (floppy based. Why doesn't someone > > > >make a grub-stick?)? From that you can run grub manually. > > > > > > Well, from a user-level point of view, I have no interest in extended > > > tinkering. If Gentoo did it right out of the box, why couldn't debian? > > > > > > It's a shame because most of hte books at the bookstore are on debian > > > linux. But I can't afford any more time on something that > > > blankety-blank simple. > > > > > > Don't reply to this. I'm blocking out this list from now on. > > > > I'm curious. I've thought back over this thread and can't recall > > (without digging through the archives) what happened here that might > > have provoked this sort of response. > > > > I do recall that there was not a lot of good detailed information from > > OP on the problem, but maybe I missed it. What are we, as a community > > of trying-to-be-helpful users, doing to cause this reaction? It seems > > to be happening more and more, though maybe I'm new enough to not see > > the pattern properly. Clearly this guy is upset, frustrated, but to > > block out the list that's supposed to be trying to help is > > disturbing. > > > > I think that some of the problem may be a function of becoming, dare I > say it, main stream? It used to be, people would just do windows since > to them it was the only OS and it came with the box (so why change). > Now people, for a variety of reasons (macs change archetecture, problems > with constantly paying for new MS stuff, whatever), people who before > wouldn't consider a *N*X are doing so. And they're not prepared. so in other words... its a good thing! A
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