Text 59934, 51 rader
Skriven 2010-02-10 12:59:27 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 59923 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Old Toshiba.
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On 2/9/10 6:17 PM, Jean Parrot -> Charles Scaglione wrote:

Hi Jean:

As usual, we stay busy.  I do read the echo every day to keep up with what's
going on.

 JP>   I got to fix, a Toshiba of three years. The son of a friend got
 JP> invaded by bad stuff. On cleaning it, the WL would not work any more,
 JP> not at all.

Young folks seem very adept at getting invaded by bad stuff. :)  It's probably
because of the sites they visit.

 JP> It ended up here yesterday, XP was loaded and ran, it kept asking to
 JP> call home to get validated, the WL would not honour the request so I
 JP> connected an RJ-45, no further ahead.

 JP> I tried to do a repair on XP, it would not budge. I tried a new install,
 JP> all same-same. I then loaded U'u. Yeah ! it was all slick. It saw the
 JP> 10/100 from the time it went on. Great Scott, what an OS.

 JP> I will no try and load XP again to double boot. Will this work ok or is
 JP> XP to be loaded first ?

When I was dual booting XP and Ubuntu, I used a boot loader. I first installed
XP and then Ubuntu.  However, instead of allowing GRUB to be placed in the boot
sector, I directed it to the partition where Ubuntu was installed.  That
allowed the boot loader software (BootIt Next Generation) to boot either XP or
Ubuntu and didn't cause any overwrite of the boot sector.

Generally, you should load XP first, then Ubuntu.  GRUB will "see" the XP boot
sector and add it to its boot menu giving you dual boot capability.  If you do
it the other way around, XP will overwrite GRUB and you will only be able to
boot XP.

 JP> Where have you been, no presence in the last 5 days, I hope all is
 JP> right. Did you read about my brother and his Thinkpad ?

Yes, I read about you giving Louis a Thinkpad.  Are you close enough to Louis
to drive to his home and help him learn how to use it?  I guess you can always
setup remote access from you to him.

Got to do a service this evening (Wed) and tomorrow is our weekly ministry
meeting.  We also do ministry work Friday evenings and this Saturday we'll be
heading north to feed and evangelize migrant workers.

Regards.

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