On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:14:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > Thanks all for the advice and help with this. I went over ... > Windows XP. ... snipped tale of the death of a free computer... and a fantastic anecdote in support of RTFM! ... > > Anyway, unless I want to make a hobby of making that machine > able to boot Debian, and fiddling with it just to see if it > could have been made to work, I'm afraid Debian is pretty > much gone on this machine. Even if I make the machine dual > boot, I wonder just how often it actually would get booted > to Debian. Her plan is to use Knoppix to move her mail files > etc. from the Debian partition to an external FAT drive, > and then reboot Windows and import. > how ironic that she will be using a debian derivative to get her windows installation into a state she wants. What can I say Mike, we tried. cheers A
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