In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:23:02 +0100
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> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Wednesday 23 August 2006 02:00 \__
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, casioculture@xxxxxxxxx
>> <casioculture@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on 22 Aug 2006 16:04:12 -0700
>> <1156287852.489857.196320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> So, what did I do?
>>>
>>> I subscribed to the torrent and it roared at ~1.9MB per second. While
>>> it got downloading I went to buy bread as I had none. By the time I got
>>> back the download was completed. I then burned the ISO at x48. I
>>> restarted from windows and rebooted into the CD. A couple of minor
>>> adjustment to the network settings, I told it to format root and swap,
>>> mount the previous home parition as home, and I told it to install.
>>> Within minutes it was done. Restarted, ah!, my familiar desktop with
>>> all the home settings reloaded, my wallpaper, my friend's picture that
>>> I got in an email two days ago is on the desktop, and all my other
>>> files are just there. I then got automatix, as I'd never used it
>>> before, and it's now running!
>>>
>>> How simple! I could've reinstalled my amd64 ubuntu from the CD I had
>>> but I thought I'll try the i386 this time. I also could've tinkered
>>> with it some more to try to fix it before reinstalling, but I've been
>>> wanting an excuse to get a clean new installation anyhow over the past
>>> few days.
>>>
>>> Really, how simple! Had it been windows it would've taken days to
>>> reassemble all the pieces together.
>
>
> A friend of mine, who is 77, jumped from Windows to Ubuntu last night. Cold
> turkey! Everything works, but there is the need to import the data from the
> backup device... all the Windows proprietary bits.
>
>
>> All believable except for one thing: how did you avoid making a coaster
>> from the Windows CD burner? :-) Even while going out for comestibles,
>> Windows might call out to the mothership...
>
>
> Do you reckon they would send a singal to sabotage the burning process?
Naw. I was thinking more along the lines of a random occurrence. :-)
Sort of like that job running (whose was that?) which got killed by a
reboot at exactly the wrong time because Windows decided it needed to
update on Saturday night "automatically".
> Windows software definitely makes it unintuitive, and in some case
> impossible, to burn ISO's.
>
Oh, I dunno; Casioculture didn't seem to have too many problems. :-)
Then again, I've not had to burn CD's from Windows, myself;
xcdroast works reasonably well for me on Linux once I got
it set up properly. I could also use cdrecord.
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