False Alarm - Was Caution, SuSE Linux Live Eval loading

Armand plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:55:07 -0700


Brian Cluff wrote:
> 
> Ok...  I have since installed the same Eval CD on the same machine 2 more
> times doing the same exact things as the time that is appeard to kill my
> hard drive with no ill effects what so ever.  I believe in reality what
> killed the drive was windows itself on a bad shutdown with a little help
> from me hitting the power during a write :)
> I believe that I can now highly recommed that whoever has the SuSE Live Eval
> cd, go ahead and give it a try.  It is a excelent install and everything
> appears to just work right off the bat.  I think I'm gonna carry this thing
> around just in case I ever get stuck using someones windows install for long
> periods of time.  This way I can have something decent to work on that is
> mine :)
> 
> I hope that I didn't cause anyone any undo scares with me jumping the gun on
> reporting a bad disk
> 
> Brian Cluff

Congrats!

Why not do an ftp install? 

or better yet barrow a cd from some one.

Armand