Mike wrote:
> Robert Newson wrote:
>> ed wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>>>>> First time I installed it, it wouldn't do anything. Just loads of
>>>>>> text on screen.
>>>>>>
>>>>> sounds more like you didnt work the installer right
>>>>>
>>>> But...Linux just "works".
>>>>
>>>> Second time I installed it worked fine. Lost everything on my HDD
>>>> but that's what you get...
>>>
>>> you know.. the very same thing happened when i installed windows.
>>
>> The last time I had to [finish] install[ing] Windwos, I didn't get the
>> option to partition the 80G HD the way I wanted. The result? One
>> large C: partition covering the whole disk.
>>
>> However, I wanted to transfer stuff from other computers to that one
>> (in various locations on the new machine), so I wanted to share the
>> C: drive as it would be the easiest way to achieve that over my lan.
>> WRONG. Warning: Sharing the root drive is dangerous [as malware could
>> infect
>> machine/you could have your machine pwned] and not recommended, do you
>> REALLY
>> want to do it?
>> If the OS writers KNOW it's dangerous to share the root (C:) drive,
>> WHY does the installer create ONLY a root drive? (Or was the
>> installer written by another department of Microsoft that has no idea
>> what the other departments consider good practice? Left hand not
>> knowing what the right is doing?)
>> And why does Windwos default to installing DOCUMENTS and SETTINGS on
>> this root drive if it knows the root drive is such a dangerous place?
>
> This is a Linux "newsgroup". Not Windows/Microsoft.
>
In which you post with Outhouse Excess.
So, cretin, where is *your* linux advocacy?
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