There are these things called rewritable cd/dvd's when you really need
one, you just write over your least useful disc.
That's pretty much all I buy
On Jun 21, 2014 11:34 AM, <
kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
> Sounds like you should hate DVD drives instead.
>>
> Nawh, that wasn't the problem.
> I didn't have blank DVDs.
> I live in the middle of the boondocks and it is an hour-and-a-half
> round-trip journey to go get them.
> Of course that if I had known then what I know now...
> ET
>
> On Jun 21, 2014 11:10 AM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I hate Unity too...
>>> And/or the M$-like bloated KDE.
>>> Because my long hated (and mostly reliable) Linux Mint went out of
>>> support, I decided to go with what I hate the least: Xubuntu.
>>> But I could not burn the DVD, so I installed it on VirtualBox,
>>> transferred
>>> the system to my real box, fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new
>>> Xubuntu.
>>> No sound...
>>> Darn...
>>> After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, I'll go Debian
>>> Xfce.
>>> So I got my trusty net-install CD and...
>>> It said that it needed 'proprietary firmware' from Realtek, but WAIT!
>>> It also said that I could install from the 'proprietary firmware DVD'!
>>> Which (of course) I could not burn either...
>>> So I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred the system to my real box,
>>> fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new Debian! :-)
>>> No sound...
>>> And not second monitor...
>>> Darn... :(
>>> After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, Mint worked before,
>>> I may as well give it a F$%#ING try (I *NEED* a box!)...
>>> Of course I could not burn the DVD!!!!
>>> So I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred the system to my real box,
>>> fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new Mint 17 Xfce.
>>> And now everything works!
>>> But I am hard headed and now I am facing years (I installed LTS) of
>>> hating
>>> MINT!!!!
>>> Grrrrrrrrr...
>>> 3 wasted days later, and with a fully functional system that I hate, I am
>>> seriously considering to end it all and hang myself from a pumpkin
>>> tree...
>>> I warned you that it was a useless and meaningless rant!
>>> So there...
>>> ET
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