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Author: Digital Wokan
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Subject: what I like about SuSE
Look at the WinNT boot floppies for it. (Or make them from the
Add/Remove programs startup disks tab.)
Personally, I still like Mandrake. And 7.0 (dunno why it wasn't 6.2) is
pretty sweet.

Lucas Vogel wrote:
>
> My computer(WinNT) doesn't have fdisk. I tried copying fdisk.exe from a
> Win95 floppy but it wouldn't work, so I tried using the format command
> but it says /mbr is an invalid option.
>
> "James, Justin" wrote:
> >
> > when in a dos windows type fdisk /mbr to rid yourself of lilo.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lucas Vogel [mailto:lucas7@home.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 4:00 PM
> > To: PLUG
> > Subject: what I like about SuSE
> >
> > SuSE is the fourth distro I've installed on my Linux partition(s), and I
> > have to tell you-I have run into less problems than I think I've ever
> > had with any other distribution. The one thing I absolutely love about
> > it is that I've just now run into a couple of dependency problems
> > installing rpm's; before I was running into them so often that
> > installing a package sometimes took up to a couple of hours because I
> > had to install of the right packages. Of course, I have nearly all of
> > SuSE installed, so that probably accounts for having all of the packages
> > too. But for a big distro, it sure runs smart. The only REAL problem
> > I've run into is I still can't figure out how to wipe my MBR clean so it
> > will boot into Windows uninterrupted and I can use my boot floppy to get
> > in. But I think this is based more on my lack of looking into it more
> > than it is SuSE's fault.
> >
> > Anyone wanna buy a COL 2.2 distro? :)
> >
> > The newbie has spoken...
> >
> > Lucas Vogel
> >
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