Re: Re: Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-28 Thread Balamurugan
On 09/28/2013 04:04 AM, David L. Craig wrote: On 13Sep27:2054+0530, Balamurugan wrote: On 09/27/2013 04:08 PM, David L. Craig wrote: Your fact is not. I installed Debian Sid on a G500 a few months ago and it dual-boots with Win8. The trick is to use the smaller alternative power button to

Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Sep26:2109-0400, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Balamurugan emailstorb...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/25/2013 04:59 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Catherine Gramze wrote: I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running Debian. I have had a bad experience with a

Re: Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-27 Thread Balamurugan
On 09/27/2013 04:08 PM, David L. Craig wrote: On 13Sep26:2109-0400, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Balamurugan emailstorb...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/25/2013 04:59 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Catherine Gramze wrote: I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running

Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:38 AM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: On 13Sep26:2109-0400, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Balamurugan emailstorb...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/25/2013 04:59 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Catherine Gramze wrote: I intend to build a computer for the

Re: Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Sep27:2054+0530, Balamurugan wrote: On 09/27/2013 04:08 PM, David L. Craig wrote: Your fact is not. I installed Debian Sid on a G500 a few months ago and it dual-boots with Win8. The trick is to use the smaller alternative power button to the right of the large power button, which

Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-26 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Balamurugan emailstorb...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/25/2013 04:59 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Catherine Gramze wrote: I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-bought computer, which seemed to be

Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread David L. Craig
On 13Sep25:0800+0530, Balamurugan wrote: Recently one of my friend's brother bought a Lenova laptop. My friend asked me to install Ubuntu in that laptop but that machine was not detecting Ubuntu and directly booting into Windows 8. Then after bit of struggle, we went into the bios and

Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
OT: On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 04:22 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: warranty Depending to the seal there are different tricks to keep warranty. Sometimes, if a seal is above a screw keeping a seal, but tear up the screw by force does work. For some seals, that don't have visible breakings, it's

Re: Re: Building computer

2013-09-24 Thread Balamurugan
Hi Catherine Gramze, Recently one of my friend's brother bought a Lenova laptop. My friend asked me to install Ubuntu in that laptop but that machine was not detecting Ubuntu and directly booting into Windows 8. Then after bit of struggle, we went into the bios and changed the boot mode from