THURSTON ACKERMAN -> DAVID DRUMMOND wrote:

 RJT>>> Gee,  that's funny,  because I have several machines doing just
 RJT>>> that here.

 DD>> As is the 486 running Linux here (and has been running it 24/7 for
 DD>> more than five years).

 TA> I gather you are a qualified linux user of some considerable experience.

I am not "qualified" in manner regarding Linux. I had minimal
experience when I installed it on that machine in 1999. I was running OS/2
prior to that.

 TA> Do you and other linuxers feel Michael Robertson is stealing from
 TA> your efforts developeing linux?

 TA> Do you think he is an impediment to the increased use of linux?

I have no feelings regarding Robertson at all, I am but a user.

 TA> On a more personal level; I had a fairly usefull SuSE 9.0 running
 TA> for a bit over a year (shareing a W98se on a seperate partition
 TA> by Partition Magic and its dual boot up facility, and the OEM
 TA> XP-Home on its own HD)in a Systemax Tiger 970553 with 1.8gz P4
 TA> with its original 40 GB Maxtor and OEM XP-Home.

 TA> Installed new hard drive with partitioning established by the Western
 TA> Digital facilities supplied. After ghosting the W98se to its partition
 TA> we downloaded SuSE 9.1 iso from Novell, and burned a install cd by nero.

 TA> Unfortunately when we YASTed the SuSE 9.1 into the alternate partiton,
 TA> it bombed the W98se (and the OEM XP 9-(.

 TA> I have my own W98se installation cd so we managed to recover that
 TA> partition (haven't tried to restore the XP yet) but all else was kaput.

 TA> Any idea what may have happened?

I would guess that it had clobbered the partition table, but wouldn't
really know. I have not had any contact with SUSE, Slackware is my
distribution of choice.

 TA> How much does regular gasoline cost north of the 48 these days.

North of 48??? I am at 27deg 29' South

Regular fuel is a little over $1.00 per litre in the local currency.

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regards

David

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