Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-09 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:13, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030707 11:00]: > > In a message dated 7/6/03 6:55:47 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > writes: > > > > > Was the hard disk IBM by any chance. IBM hard drives are renowned for > > > their clic

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-08 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi, > Take note of Jamin's comments. Whatever anecdotes you read here > should not be considered data. Seconded. No data ahead here. > I've also had problems with IBM drives, but I believe it was a > particular model that was bad (it was a 60GB deskstar). A particular > model, I said, not a pa

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030707 11:00]: > In a message dated 7/6/03 6:55:47 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > Was the hard disk IBM by any chance. IBM hard drives are renowned for > > their click of death. Nothing to do with Linux. I think it might have >

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-07 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 19:27, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:50:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/6/03 6:55:47 AM Central Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > Was the hard disk IBM by any chance. IBM hard drives are renowned > > >

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:50:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just bought a new hard drive, and I almost bought an IBM. I'm really > glad I saw this message first, I ended up buying a Seagate. Does > anybody else have any recommendations--

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-07 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:50:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 7/6/03 6:55:47 AM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Was the hard disk IBM by any chance. IBM hard drives are renowned > > for their click of death. Nothing to do with Linux. I think it mi

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-07 Thread Danthevb6man
In a message dated 7/6/03 6:55:47 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Was the hard disk IBM by any chance. IBM hard drives are renowned for their click of death. Nothing to do with Linux. I think it might have been co-incidence that the harddrive burnt out same time you installed l

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to 70 columns so people can more readily read and respond to what you're saying. On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:47:23PM +0800, jianan wrote: > 3. What is the reason? Is there a bug? After having found the MBR to > be bigger

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:47:23PM +0800, jianan wrote: > >Hi, > >I went through the procedures in the document "Installing Debian >GNU/Linux 3.0 for Intel X86". ... >which I can't recall exactly. But it booted up alright. The '#' prompt >appeared. So I did a "cd /" followed

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-06 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 05:47, jianan wrote: > Hi, > I went through the procedures in the document "Installing Debian > GNU/Linux 3.0 for Intel X86". > > 1. Following the download from the specified sites i.e. 'current', I > end up with a version 2.2. This is not really a problem compared to > wha