How I got rid of all my problems!

[u3mike]

Step one: I logged on as a root user

Step two: I typed "mkreiserfs /dev/hda2" (hda2 being my one windows partition)

Thats it. Pretty simple eh? ;)

[dalek]

Hope you were done with windoze. It is gone now.

I hate windoze. I'm glad you got rid of it. Welcome to Linux.

Later

:D :D :D :D

Hmmmm, must be finished compiling a Gentoo app. I hear the CPU fan slowing down. Nope, another error. CRAP, what did I do now?

:confused: :confused: :confused:

[nugget15]

More like this
1: Boot up and d/l a copy of linux.
2: Burn copy to disk
3: insert disk and restart
4: install linux and reformat hdd
5: mail copy to all friends/relitives

[JamminJoeyB]

I'd say Evil Entity Linux does this well. Just down load, burn and install.

It's doesn't really give you the option to specify a partician easily. Besides they want it to blow your windos partician away. LOL

[mrBen]

I've been Windows free for 8 months now, and don't miss it a bit.

Although probably the path to true enlightenment begins with Knoppix, then dual-boot, and then single boot.

[Trogdor]

When Reiser4 comes out, it will be, as you young'uns say, "The bomb."

[klackenfus]

I have a funny story about stuff like this. I have a great boss, CEO of the company but he is still of the great M$ loving unwashed crowd. One day he saw me working on a PC in my office and he asked me what I was doing to it. I told him I was fixing it. He then said, "oh really, what was wrong with it?" To which, I replied: "it was running Windows but I blew away the partition and I'm installing Linux now." In all honesty, the sarcastic nature of the comment was unintended but once I said it, I realized how funny it was.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by klackenfus
I have a great boss, CEO of the company but he is still of the great M$ loving unwashed crowd. One day he saw me working on a PC in my office and he asked me what I was doing to it. I told him I was fixing it. He then said, "oh really, what was wrong with it?" To which, I replied: "it was running Windows but I blew away the partition and I'm installing Linux now." In all honesty, the sarcastic nature of the comment was unintended but once I said it, I realized how funny it was.

So how are you liking your new job these days? :p

[JamminJoeyB]

Hey I still dual boot. I boot Slackware 9.1 and EE. Ok so I am dual booting linux and linux :D

For real fun I wonder if I could find a copy of os2 LOL.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by JamminJoeyB

For real fun I wonder if I could find a copy of os2 LOL.

I've got a couple of boxed copies that I brought home from work after cleaning up our technical department storage room in the basement. That and lots of other software and hardware. Amazing what you can get if you volunteer to do certain jobs at the office. :)

I'm also the *cough* software librarian (volunteered again) where all new software first goes through me before ending up in our software cabinet.

[JamminJoeyB]

mdwatts, it doesn't surprise me at all you have some copies of os2 around.

[nugget15]

Unfortonalty I do not have my own puter, so I'm stuck on windows/live cds. But soon I should be start building my own puter :) YAY!!! Also at school, I have to use windows 98 :( no linux classes.

[Icarus]

LiveCDs are not too bad, Knoppix is great and with the new one you can really test out the 2.6 kernel
I just started on making a remaster of Knoppix to boot off my USB key with the apps I want to use. Turns out not to be very difficult, just a little time consuming ;)

[lugoteehalt]

u3mike Step two: I typed "mkreiserfs /dev/hda2" (hda2 being my one windows partition)

Hope not OT. How d'you get Windows to run from, non-first partition, hda2?:confused:

Incidentally, how d'you get the {quotes} thing to put in the name of the quoted party?:confused:

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by lugoteehalt
How d'you get Windows to run from, non-first partition, hda2?:confused:


AFAIK Win9X will boot from any primary partition and NT/W2K/XP can actually be installed on a logical (hda5 etc.).

I have /boot in hda1 and XP in hda2. Grub is installed in hda1 and it is set as the active partition.