Re: legal copies of windows XP

Phil Stovell wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:48:39 +0100, Cynic wrote:

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:59:36 +0100, Phil Stovell <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:02:52 +0100, Cynic wrote:

I just listed it in detail in my reply to Alex. Maybe you'd like to
tell me which bits you consider obscure?

Yes, I saw your reply. A lot of it seems obscure to me, but I only use a
basic system with not much added. My Trust webcam works OK with Linux,
as
does my Creative Labs one. My Nvidia card was detected and driven at
1024x768@60hz, when I enabled the Nvidia drivers with the restricted
drivers manager it then enabled 1600x1200@85hz. That was the only
problem
I had, my printer, scanner and network all worked without any
intervention. Ubuntu 7.04.

There's a website with Linux compatible hardware lists, Google will find
it.

One of the distros I tried was Ubuntu. There may well be drivers
available, but I spent several frustrating days hunting. Frustrating
because, as I said before, Linux sites are generally not the easiest
sites
in which to find things. They appear to me to be full of tantalising
clues and snippets of information and the user has to wade through
several
different sites in order to piece together all that is needed to know.
And Linux downloads (of anything) are IME a real PITA - they seem to be
arranged so as to do everything in the most awkward and non-standard way
possible, and instead of telling you what you need to get, they lay a
trail of breadcrumbs for you to follow that usually ends up at a raw FTP
site where you have to guess what you need by the directory and file
names! What on Earth is wrong with the normal "Click here to download"
button?

IIRC it took me several attempts to download a working set of
installation
disks. I initially wanted to get the DVD ISO file to burn, but it turned
out that all the sites had the same broken image file (truncated by the
looks of things). So I ended up downloading several CD ISOs instead -
some of which were never used in the installation and nothing I could see
to tell me why they are needed. The supposed boot CD was not a boot CD -
the boot block was missing. I had to boot from the broken DVD (which had
a
working boot block) and then change to the CD after the first "file not
found" message following the boot. It didn't assist to find that the
help
file directory on the CD was empty, and many of the FAQs told me to refer
to the help files.

But I eventually got it all running. Except for most of my hardware of
course.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

See if you can work out how to download it :-).

[clue: it's 2 clicks].

Downloading now, will report back....

Gaz


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