Re: [LUG] Distros

[Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Grant

I should have said that I went the take over hard drive procedure and 
it is always good to get the balance.

So maybe Lindows isn't the way to go for a new user!!!

Rich

On 3 Jan 2005, at 11:35, Grant Sewell wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:11:02 +0000
> Richard Brown wrote:
>
> > Anyway, what I thought I would do is feedback on the use of Lindows 
> > 4.5.
>
> Lindows 4.5 has been around for a while now.  I tried it out, albeit 
> the download version, and had a horrible surprise waiting for me.
>
> I have to agree with you, it certainly was one of the easiest to 
> install distros I had tried, but it seemed to have a disregard for 
> user input.  I selected the "advanced" installation option - which 
> seemed to ask only a couple of extra questions regarding 
> partitioning... which it then processed to ignore.
>
> Let me expand a little.  At the time I had several different OSs 
> installed on my system, some on hda and some on hdb.  I chose to 
> install Lindows to hdb.  I used the "advanced" (or is it expert?) mode 
> and when requested, I told it to install onto hdb2.  Can't really be 
> any clearer than that. h,d,b,2.  During the installation it obviously 
> decided to take a look around on my harddrive (inspecting it to find 
> any Windows partitions I suspect) and found that hda7 was a nice place 
> to install instead.  Now, let's compare these: target is hdb2, ended 
> up on hda7.  Hmm... me thinks something's amiss there.  What happened 
> to be on hda7 was the /var partition for my (then) main Mandrake 
> install.  Trashed.  I did manage to recover 90% of the functionality, 
> but the RPM database was gone, which made it remarkably hard to 
> install rpm software nicely.  Pretty much everything from that point 
> was installed from source and source only - it was easier.
>
> Anyway, you can get the *whole* gory story (including a bit of an 
> argument with an ardent Lindows fan about whether ignoring user input 
> should be acceptable or not) from linuxquestions.org.
>
> Google for "thymox "linuxquestions.org" lindows normal practice".  
> Should be the only LQ thread listed.
>
> Grant.
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