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18th April 2006, 04:29 AM
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Is there an alternative for linux?
Shouldnt fedora have an equivalent of the following link on there website?
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=247804
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18th April 2006, 05:23 AM
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Now, why would anyone ever need that? 
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18th April 2006, 05:47 AM
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No need for any prep work, the installer'll gladly reformat Windows paritions.
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18th April 2006, 06:49 AM
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But it would nice if fedora would put an article (officially) on there website for all those poor users who have been trapped in the windows environment.
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18th April 2006, 09:36 AM
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I'd like to meet the Linux user that actually is considering doing that, or better, needs instructions on how to do it... 
Do the people at Microsoft actually believe that a Linux user is that inept? 
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18th April 2006, 10:21 AM
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That is really old. Most distros uses GRUB instead of LILO. Both RHEL and Fedora uses LVM2 that won't be recognized on Windows system.
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18th April 2006, 01:42 PM
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LOL, this is really a strange article... isn't enough using the WinXP cd tools to delete exiting partitions and install?
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18th April 2006, 03:20 PM
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Never go back!
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20th April 2006, 05:38 AM
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...for people that didn't have the time to fiddle around figuring out the linux install, or just plain couldn't figure it out and gave up. Even they would rather not use windows, I can tell you that. They wouldn't have tried linux in the first place if they did.
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21st April 2006, 08:39 PM
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If ReactOS will be good as it promise MS will really have hard time...
Linux and ReactOS will really take on the world!
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22nd April 2006, 11:28 AM
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If they put a KB article on how to dual-boot, I could see the use in that. But that is a waste of internet space!
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22nd April 2006, 12:57 PM
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Spode? As in the "Spodes Abode?"
If I have you confused with someone else, much apologies...
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22nd April 2006, 01:02 PM
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Yes indeedy 
What are you doing on here Qwagmire??
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22nd April 2006, 04:42 PM
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I agree with Spode. Check out this article...
OT:Hey Spode!
I've been having fun with Fedora, learning BASH commands, having a great ol time...
So have you installed FC5 yet?
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22nd April 2006, 04:51 PM
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Yeah, I set up a new machine at home for fiddling with it. Haven't bothered upgrading my FC4 box as it's doing fine and it's running my mail server etc.
But I rented a new web server which came with FC4 installed. I did an upgrade using yum to get it to FC5. Just getting it all set up before I move Spode's Abode et all on to it 
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