Greetings and felicitations once again;
Yesterday I had the brass and effrontery to prevail upon the illustrious members of
this list to help me with a small problem concerning the uninstall of RH and
reformatting of my second hard drive on my home machine.
Several folks offered suggestions and I went ahead and tried them out.
I spent a couple of hours attempting to create a boot disk, which sounds pretty
ridiculous on the face of it, but there it is. Tried a variety of methods and got
various error messages throughout the process as I thought to myself, 'Ya know, this
shouldn't be this hard.' Suffice to say that my efforts were unsuccessful, which made
me feel pretty darn small until I recalled with which product I was dealing. In
retrospect I probably should have tried Ben's suggestion of booting up the RH cd and
going from there, but I stupidly and negligently figured it would be easier and faster
with WinDoze and/or DOS, and I'd never had these problems before making a boot disk
and/or formatting a drive.
Anyway, I was about out of ideas, and then I stumbled across the boot disk supplied
with the Maxtor hard drive I had purchased last summer upon which I had installed RH.
Booted it up and lo and behold, I was then able to format the drive, no sweat, and
recover the entire 15GB for WinDoze apps. This was less than elegant, admittedly, but
it sure got the job done and lickety-split.
Thomas Albright asked me:
So ... Why can't you work in linux? I'm no developer, (as is obvious by
my questions on theis list,) but I use linux almost exclusively. I have
WordPerfect 2000, ApplixWare, and Star Office for office apps, gimp and
ImageMagik for graphics, netscape for the web, pine for e-mail, slrn for
news...
Why (besides games) do you need that other OS?
If it were solely up to me I would run Linux exclusively on that home system, but
unfortunately I gotta share it with wife and kidz, even though the kidz have their own
WinDoze boxes (their 56k modems are "too slow" so they tend to wanna use our machine
equipped with cable modem, natch.) Anyway, the C drive was getting full and the D
drive, where I had RH installed, was needed for more space for work-related apps and
files, unfortunately again, all WinDoze products. I was going to add a third drive
but decided instead to build a whole separate machine and try out various flavors of
Linux on it and the rest of the household would be off it completely. So I'm
interested to continue hearing the pros and cons of the different distros in this
group.
Thanks to all for attempting to assist this still-newbie Linux user; with any luck at
all, I may be moving soon to a shop that runs Tru64 and RH, besides VMS and NT.
Hope to meet some of you this year F2F; good bunch of folks, no exceptions
