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Article #3436Re: Uninstall Linux
From: W Canedigh
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:00
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------926E5F19F43167F86FD41737 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ernest, The advice regarding fdisk has been right. But I want to suggest that you consider this ... starting from "ground zero" it takes quite a while for a person to become proficient with ANY operating system ... and that includes MSFT products. Moving to a Unix is a move up and requires somewhat different skills than using a "GUI - only" operating system. I am assuming (from your email) that you have installed Linux as a partition on a dual-boot machine. I, too, am nowhere near being able to use Linux applications for all my needs. In fact, I am still stumbling around learning vi and file manipulation commands. But I know that, like when I first started up my original XT many years ago and faced nasty old DOS, I am able to learn to use this tool. Ultimately, I will know how to use Linux and, by extension, be well along to using other Unices too. My understanding is that knowing how to use Unix and being able to program in a couple of languages is the key to a very nice paycheck. Using Linux at home is the most likely way I will get ANY networking experience and ANY Unix experience. If you think Linux is so hard to learn, why not press CTRL+ALT+DELETE on your Windows machine and try to determine why Win is running each of those programs. The odds are that you only thought you had one or two applications going. And what is that file called OSA supposed to do? Once you overcome your present video card problems (is VGA all that bad while you simply learn to use Linux?), I think you will find that your machine is a lot faster than you thought. It won't be long and the idea of simply turning the computer on to twiddle with it will become fun. Well ... that's more than enough "preaching" for one day. Like I said earlier, the fdisk advice you were given will work ... I would just like you to sit back a bit and ask yourself if you really want to use it, though. Bill Ernest Frankowski wrote: > > Hi ! > I`m newbie to Linux , which I installed few days ago and of course I have > problems. My Red Hat 5.2 cannot load X-Window. I think it`s connected with > my SVGA ( S3 Trio 3D AGP ) and monitor ( IBM G50 ). Linux didn`t find > drivers for this devices. I didn`t find good matched drivers in Internet. > And I want to uninstall Linux. How to do it , and of course uninstall Lilo > loader and come back to Fat32 file system. How format hard drive from linux > to fat ??? > > HELP !!! > Ernest Frankowski > evhab@polbox.com --------------926E5F19F43167F86FD41737 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rgabill.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for W Canedigh Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rgabill.vcf" begin:vcard n:Canedigh;Bill tel;home:313 387 8384 -http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99may/19990506.html x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:rgabill@ameritech.net note;quoted-printable:The less I know, the smaller my ulcer.=0D=0A= fn:Bill Canedigh end:vcard --------------926E5F19F43167F86FD41737--
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fcd6c,d6972fe1620d5db1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcd6c,public X-Google-Thread: 11033e,d6972fe1620d5db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public X-Google-Thread: 1095e9,d6972fe1620d5db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1095e9,public From: W Canedigh <rgabill@ameritech.net> Subject: Re: Uninstall Linux Date: 1999/06/12 Message-ID: <3761F6B4.760E4545@ameritech.net> X-Deja-AN: 488690320 References: <kR273.842$s8.2235507@news.tpnet.pl> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------926E5F19F43167F86FD41737" X-Complaints-To: usenet@exectech.net X-Trace: news4.usenetserver.com 929166937 206.141.209.151 (Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:55:37 EDT) Organization: UseNetServer.Com - Your portal to the world. MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: rgabill@ameritech.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:55:37 EDT Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux,linux.redhat.announce,linux.redhat.install