Subj : WinXP
To   : ROBERT FOWLER
From : Charles Scaglione
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 03:34 pm

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:46:00 -0400, "ROBERT FOWLER -> CHARLES
SCAGLIONE" <1:123/140> wrote:

Hi Robert:

 RF>  I had a brainstorm this afternoon thinking about Jay's predicament
 RF>  with the Win95 USB laptop, and thought hey, maybe a Linux CD would
 RF>  allow him to use his USB flash drive.

 RF>  I have a USB multi-card reader here, so I tested it with all of the
 RF>  live CD distros I had.  Linspire saw it but would not read it.  The
 RF>  others, including Knoppix, MEPIS and Ubuntu, didn't find it.  Xandros
 RF>  saw and read it.  That's indicative of the challenge for Linux, IMO.

I'm encouraged by what you say about Xandros.  Last night I downloaded
the install CD for Ubuntu preview version 5.10.  Tried to install it
over my copy of MEPIS but it failed at the partitioning stage.  Seems
it likes un partitioned space or at least unallocated space before it
will install.  I couldn't even get it to install using the manual
method.

Good thing I have a very fast DSL connection or I would have been
extremely unhappy about the time wasted.   Will let you know about
Xandros.  I'm going to download it this evening and give it a try.

Regards.

chscag at gmail dot com

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