Linux
 

how do you un-install Linux???? One of my friends down the hall needs to un-install it and he can't figure out how. some one please help!

thanks,
liz

in what way (getting it off the machine or totally repartitioning the hard drive)? is it the only operating system installed on the machine? what distribution is installed? is he/she trying to save all the files on it?

Wrap some wire around the hard drive, say 500 times and connect both ends to a bot battery, give it like twenty minutes to be sure.

Now the helpful response: If you wanna get rid of it altogether just format the drive and put Windows on it, Windows install can do that for you. If you have it partitioned you can use linux or dos fdisk to just erase and remake the partition then format it.

Easiest way, insert a win XP install disk, and boot from that.

It'll identify the Linux parition(s) as a "possible virus" and wipe it out for you (well, almost for you, you have to hit enter like, one time :p).

Then install XP and have fun watching it crash every five minutes after you get anything else installed on it (my experience at least).

linux = evil.

i had to get rid of it about a month ago, and it wasnt until a very knowledgable friend of mine helped me, that i got anywhere.

i like the suggestion about the wires around the harddrive. probably more effective. :ahh:

jill

Grrrr.....watch it ;)

How do you get a room of computer engineers to pay attention to you?
Yell Linux sucks
Yell Mac's suck

Why Linux = Evil....
 

My laptop got taken over by linux...well, I mean my "friend" loaded it cause he claimed windows wouldn't work (he also said my cd-rom didn't work). So, my laptop which has pretty much been fried twice thanks to power surges, has had Windows loaded four times, linux loaded and unloaded who knows how many times.

And now, finally with Windows 2000, I can't get my internet working!!!!! Ahhh!!!! How do I increase my RAM? It keeps going nutso over that.

Moral of the story:

Linux = Evil
AOL = Most evil thing created

And finally, a lot of computer people don't know much about computers.

I think I'll refrain from yelling "Linux is EVIL!!!!!" anytime soon. The penguin is cool anyway...

Jill

Gah!!!

Why do people hate the communist penguin! (Well, Tux isn't really a commie, but I've seen so many pictures like that :p)

Linux isn't evil, it's just not for the computer illiterate. Windows, now that's some evil software for you. Believe me, at least with Linux you can control what your computer does, with Windows, ha, good luck with that one.

Finally, you all gotta love the CLI, it's so nice and clean and happy and easy to use. CLI, it's so much fun!

I seem to remember a time when I was trying to convince you of this fact... ;)

Well, I can agree that Linux ain't for everyone, but if you can get it working, and don't feel threatened by it, it's great.

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Linux only = Evil if you have ridiculously slow and old laptop that was made for Windows 95.

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The penguin rocks!!! Why can't Microsoft have a super cool logo like that. No, they have to have some little thing that I'm still wondering what it is!!!

I really gotta get a new laptop, something that actually has enough memory to move.

Jill

Actually, Linux can work quite well on (relatively) slow machines. While it really depends on the hardware configuration of the laptop (some devices might have varrying degrees of support, depending on which kernel you decide to install), Linux can be loaded on practically any x86 system.

One of the drawing points about Linux, as opposed to Windows, is that it can be installed on old(er) machines, and still work perfectly well. I wonder if anyone's tried to install Windows XP on a Pentium 133 (notice that there is no sequel suffix on the word "Pentium"), with 16MB of RAM...

Well, that "thing" (at least I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about) used to represent 4 "windows". I think it started cause of the back-in-the-day windows (back in like 1.0-3.11) the video cards did like 16 colors or 256 colors. So they didn't put any pictures in it, and I think the colors represented the layout scheme (if you've ever seen windows 1.0 it looks like it was made by a hippie because of all the bright colors) and I think that translated into the logo. Then with the more modern windows they tried to make a more "modern" logo. But yea, that's my stab at guessing where that evolved from.

Yeah, it takes a bit of time, until something clicks, and all of the sudden, all of the commands actually make sense. Till then, well, let's say there's several dented places on my desk... :)

Well, I wouldn't say "all of them." `ln` seems to have this weird quantum-mechanical problem. Whenever you want to use it, you remember that it didn't work right, last time, so you try to pass it the arguments backward from how you'd normally think of it, but that turns out to be the wrong way!

Maybe it's just me. I never use symlinks, anymore.

Amen to that one. I've got XP Home and it crashes all the time.

If you don't want to install linux, but want to see how it is, google for knoppix. It's a big file (but I think u can also download some files seperately), burn it to a cd, make sure you can boot from a cd, put the cd in the drive, restart, and presto!

Granted it takes a lil' bit of time to startup, but it's not a bad thing.

i am not quite sure. i think he wants it un-installed so that he can re-install it. he said that he accidently put in icelandic for the language and has no idea whats going on now. he installed it to begin with because he hates windows with a passion. so i guess he just wants to completely un-install it so that he can re-install it correctly. i will ask him again in the morning. thank you all so much!

I do not think anyone that owns windows has ever had that problem.

thanks you guys! he finally got it all fixed and re-installed and such. you really helped him.

I justed finished installing Vector Linux. I am not sure which version. My hard drive is partitioned. /dev/hda1 is Windows ME (don't laugh) /dev/hda2 is linux, I think. /dev/hda3 is the Linux Swap. I finished the post-installation configuration and I restarted the computer. It booted into Windows and I don't know how to get into Linux. It says to go into DOS, open the veclinux directory which I have on the hard drive (hda1), and run linux2.bat which I don't have in that folder and I don't know any DOS commands or how to open that file from DOS. If someone can help me sometime in the next few minutes, that would really help.

Isn't there something in the Windows ME help documents (yuck) with something about dual-booting?

I know in XP home there is.

I have to set up how to boot once I get into Linux for the first time. The only problem is, how do I get into it for the first time?

Well what IS in that folder?

There are lots of files related to installing Linux, but I have used all of them and I can't find linux2.bat. I was wondering if there was another way to start up Linux without using that file and without using the boot disk, since I don't have one.