My computer runs without M$

**spydie** · 12-24-2003, 02:47 AM

Well I did it now.
I was playing around with partitions on my hard drive, don't ask

After I was done I could not boot up into win98 anymore.
This is all on my older computer so I was not to worried.
After playing around some more and still not being able to boot into win98 I thought who needs it

So I formated my hard drive and M$ was gone forever.
I booted to my Knoppix cd. I had the computer up and online in just a couple of minutes.

All without any help from M$....

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In the beginning there was darkness. The visions and aspirations of a human kind were bound to the physical world in the most primitive of fashions. And so people created machines to break their bondage. Born from silicon ashes, machines gave human kind the potential to dream without boundaries. This technologyh was good and there was light.

Without a human dreamer the machine was nothing but silicon. And so operating systems were born to bridge the gap between human and machine. And much discoures ensued among the different operating systems. Even the finest of breeds bickered amongst themselves. And there was splintering, betrayal, lies, and greed.

Slaves to their dreams, the people became slaves to their machines. Forced to salute with three fingers or speak in arcane and mystic tongues, the people learned to fear... even hate the machines.

Out of this turmoil came hope.Knoppix

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Happy Holiday's

**turbinater** · 12-24-2003, 03:43 AM

Very nice

**Linkooseven** · 12-24-2003, 03:59 AM

w00t!

I'm not to sure about going Linux-Only, only because I have MANY MANY Windows applications (games mostly) that I still use, so I'll probably set up a duel boot system (I asked many questions about it in my thread about the ethernet card

)

**turbinater** · 12-24-2003, 04:03 AM

I used to dual boot back in the days of 3.1; I never used windows so I chucked the drive.

**j.drake** · 12-24-2003, 04:54 AM

Spydie, I applaud your courage.

**robwelch100** · 12-24-2003, 07:59 AM

Well done, A word to the wise for those thinking to break the link to Windows. Make sure all your hardware is supported in linux first. There are many issues with various bits and peices. Unfortunately many manufacturers overlook the linux world.

**A. Jorge Garcia** · 12-24-2003, 02:51 PM

I personally only use KNOPPIX for some time now. I have to maintain dual-boot machines, however, for some of my users....

Happy Holidays!

**jeramy** · 12-24-2003, 04:45 PM

I only boot into windows to scan pictures, which is NOT very often.

In the distant future I'll boot into it to verify that my cross-platform game works in Windows as well as Linux.

**Cuddles** · 12-24-2003, 05:52 PM

Welcome to Debian/Knoppix Spydie

Glad you made it, pretty much, unscathed [giggle]

The quote was very nice, I liked it. Some of it from Genesis, and, what I guess, a combination of Isaac Asimov and Rad Bradbury - I think

You have a Wonderful, NON-Windows, Knoppix/Debian, Happy Hollidays too Spydie

( and to all the rest within the Knopper Community

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Happy New (OS) Year,
Cuddles

**spydie** · 12-24-2003, 10:51 PM

Well I think I have the cfdisk working now. Ok, so it was always working and I just did not know how to use it

I'm now copying the knoppix files to the hard drive so I don't have to run it from the cd anymore.

It does work really great from the cd, but it will be nicer to have it run a bit faster and to be able to save other files to the hard drive again.

I'm having more fun with my old computer and Knoppix then with the new Dell and winXP, Hmm.....