<div>Hmmm "This will wipe your drive." normally means what it says it wipes your drive to be honest if it was me then I would skip centos and go for the uhuntu, it's designed for the netbook and from what I hear i runs like the clappers on the netbook.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards </div><div>Per Qvindesland</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote style="border:0;border-left: 2px solid #22437f; padding:0px; margin:0px; padding-left:5px; margin-left: 5px; "><font face="verdana" size="2">--- Original message follows ---<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??<br><b>From: </b>Beartooth <Beartooth@comcast.net><br><b>To: </b>"centos@centos.org" <centos@centos.org><br><b>Date: </b>03-05-2009 21:02<br></font><br><br>On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:20:30 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote:<br> [...]<br>> I like CentOS better than Debian also but, apparently, the new Ubuntu<br>> 9.04 works really well on netbooks.<br>> <br>> It's here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook<br><br> For the record, I went there, got that, burned it to a medium, <br>and started an install. It came up with some startlingly strong caveat, <br>to the effect that "This will wipe your drive."<br><br> I took that to be so much more ubuntoid protecting me from <br>myself, and went ahead, taking for granted that the installer would give <br>me at least one choice which would preserve CentOS.<br><br> Ba-aa-aadd move. It meant what it said : never gave me any other <br>choice of anything, but went ahead and, sure enough, completely trashed <br>my CentOS install. After that, the machine ran UNR and only UNR, even <br>with thumbsticks in it. I finally ended up running DBAN against it -- and <br>am still looking for other, *NON*-ubuntoid distros ...<br><br>-- <br>Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert<br>Remember I know precious little of what I am talking
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