[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux at Fry's

[MadHat]

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 07:34, kws1414 wrote:
> Hi I bought one of these things due to a financial crunch (have a little boy) and recently 
> had to reimage the drive with that Fast Windows Linux CD.  I can't get Win98SE back onto it.
>  I looked in the skimpy guide book and tried to del-pat as it says,
> but it doesn't work.  Somebody at work told me it might be that the
> Win98 is not reading the drive or something b/c when I run Win98 setup
> it says that drive C is bad.  It has something to do with the way the
> partitions are set up or something. Can anyone help me?
> Thanks
> 
>

Win98 is not really the focus of this list.
 
> 
> On Friday 15 March 2002 03:23 pm, you wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:51:59AM -0600, Ken Frazer wrote:
> > > Did anyone else notice the ad for the "Internet Ready Multimedia PC' on
> > > the front page of today's (Friday) Fry's ad?  It comes with "Linux 1.3
> > > shell with web browsing, e-mail, and word processing capabilities."  It
> > > is also "upgradeable to Windows XP."
> > >
> > > Does anybody know what is really installed on this thing?  At least it's
> > > nice that they are selling a machine that is pre-configured with Linux.
> >
> > The only thing that bothers me is the "upgradable to windows xp" line..
> > since when is any form a windows an upgrade from linux?
> >
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> It runs Fast Window Linux ,i bought 2 of them and was unable to even get a 
> shell.Wiped the drives and installed Mandrake no muss no fuss.Sweet deal for 
> 250 IMHO
> David
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