[CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

Beartooth

Beartooth at comcast.net
Sun May 3 19:02:26 UTC 2009


On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:20:30 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote:
	[...]
> I like CentOS better than Debian also but, apparently, the new Ubuntu
> 9.04 works really well on netbooks.
> 
> It's here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook

	For the record, I went there, got that, burned it to a medium, 
and started an install. It came up with some startlingly strong caveat, 
to the effect that "This will wipe your drive."

	I took that to be so much more ubuntoid protecting me from 
myself, and went ahead, taking for granted that the installer would give 
me at least one choice which would preserve CentOS.

	Ba-aa-aadd move. It meant what it said : never gave me any other 
choice of anything, but went ahead and, sure enough, completely trashed 
my CentOS install. After that, the machine ran UNR and only UNR, even 
with thumbsticks in it. I finally ended up running DBAN against it -- and 
am still looking for other, *NON*-ubuntoid distros ...

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.




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