Heather O'Neil wrote: > I partitioned my daughter's hard drive. SHe installed Freespire. It > did not create a dual boot. It boots directly to Freespire with > no > choices at all. When she goes to her X terminal it says it > doesn't > exist or she doesn't have priority to use it. > > All her college notes and photos are on the windoze partition. > She > can't even access them through Freespire which seems weird > because I use > Ubuntu and call access all the files on my windoze partition and > work on > them in Ubuntu all the time. Freespire seems to be a very > aggressive > distro that just doesn't want you to use any other system. She > has been > on the Freespire community forums and none of the help was > helpful since > she can't access the terminal. > > Any ideas would be greatly, greatly appreciated. > > Heather > >
At: http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Installing_Freespire_on_Your_PC ...it says: ------------------------------------ Place the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. Restart the computer, ensuring that it is set to BOOT from the CD/DVD drive. Freespire will present you with 4 options :- * INSTALL Freespire on this Computer's hard drive, * RUN Freespire directly from the CD without installing (Freespire Live!), * CREATE or MODIFY partitions on this computer's hard drive, * ADVANCED Options. If you * a want to install Freespire onto your computer AS THE ONLY OPERATING SYSTEM, select INSTALL, * b want to try Freespire before doing anything select the RUN "Live" option, * c want to install this and retain existing operating system, select CREATE or MODIFY, * d want to get stuck in, roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty, select ADVANCED. --------------------------------------------- If she selected 'Install'... then the install would have completely wiped her hard drive, reformatted it, and used the entire HD for Freespire. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
