Day Brown wrote: > > > And the crash was caused by...? Not Linux, I'll wager. > > More likely a flakey application or silly newbie mistake. > > Netscape. I hardly do anything else with Linux.
Yes, Netscape is notoriously flakey. Of all the commonly-used applications in Linux, it is probably the worst. I use Netscape quite a bit, and it goes down approximately once a week. However, it's no big deal. This never brings Linux down. I just press CTRL-ALT-F4 and kill the netscape process. Occasionally, I also have to delete the Netscape lock file. This is one advantage of a multi-tasking OS. If one process misbehaves, you have the ability to switch out of it and kill it. > > Of course they can. The turn on their Windows computer and > > run Internet Explorer. > > Not if the whole system is trashed. Are you suggesting that Linux (on a different partition) has trashed the Windows partition? This is unlikely. If Windows won't boot, it probably means that the MBR is stuffed (perhaps by a newbie mistake in configuring LILO). This is usually fixed by doing (in DOS): fdisk /mbr > that was a standard recommendation of the four distros which > I have tried. I've also ordered suse and slack and another I > never heard of, 'storm' or some such to try. Four distros plus suse, slack and another. That's seven distros and you still haven't tried BasicLinux. :-( Cheers, Steven ____________________________________________________ Linux for old PCs: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
