[Eug-lug] Linux convert

Mr O notanatheist at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 8 18:28:23 PDT 2008


What?! You didn't install Gentoo?


--- Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:

> Time to celebrate and brag...
> 
> On Sunday-Monday I visited friends in Salem who are moving to
> Michigan.
> They have an old computer (133MHz) running W2K.  She was
> afraid
> windows had gotten infected by a "security" download she had
> clicked on.  And asked about Linux.
> 
> I installed it.  But it was having trouble.  It took many
> hours to
> read the partition table.  Long enough that I was unable to
> stay for
> the full install.  I decided to stay the course.
> 
> So she did the last step while talking with me over the phone.
> And the install spanned three days, much of which involved
> waiting
> for this slow computer to contemplate its navel.
>


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