Linux as a Tool for Windows Hardware Errors
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| It may seem a bit ridiculous to some, but on more than one occasion I have
| been asked to help address a Windows hardware issue by assisting with Linux.
| The "hardware" problems these people faced were quickly reconciled either by
| placing Linux on an existing secondary partition of the hard disk, or by
| using a Linux Live-CD.
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http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/linuxforhardware.shtml
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The Disconnect That Could Fail Thousands
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| Knowing that this isn't right, I thumb thru the seventy or so Live CD disks I
| have and grab the one I know that gets this right...but wait. It only trails
| Ubuntu in the Distrowatch lineup by a few hundred hits...what about, oh, I
| don't know...let's try something obscure...let's go down the line a bit.
| Let's see who is well down the list there...It needs to be a debian distro,
| something that doesn't get too much publicity...Oh, let's try this.
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| DreamLinux.
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| Upon firing it up and doing an immediate install, imagine my surprise.
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| Without so much as having to install KdiskFree or any other third party
| disk/file manager, whaddaya know...there are my drives and files. I then
| install KDE since DreamLinux is an Xfce environment by design. Yep, a click
| on the /mnt/ file shows all my drives right there...
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/222-The-Disconnect-That-Could-Fail-Thousands.html
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