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["Dustin MacDonald" <dmacdonald95 AT hotmail.com>]

Martyn, that LINUXOS page you are getting is probably LILO, the Linux booter. If you have a Windows bootdisk with FDISK, and you can get to your D: drive, type fdisk /mbr, but if you don't want to do that, and you have re-installed LindowsOS, then you can edit the lilo.conf file to set a bigger delay to get into Windows. ^_^ Hope that helps

>From: "Martyn" <martynt AT bigpond.net.au>

>Reply-To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org

>To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>

>Subject: Re: [BL] LindowsOS 4.5

>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:56:17 +0930

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>Thanks Dustin.

>No not flamed

>This is really an interesting mailing list. I formatted the D drive, but still got the LINUXOS page when I booted. I couldn't access anything else. I could see I was going to get into strife, so reinstalled LinuxOS.  I'll examine the programme  in more detail later. I can see from other contributors that you all despise this padding and abuse of the original Linux concept. I presume LinuxOS is an example of this, and I suspected this was so.  I need a step by step guide on how to install the simpler version. I don't know what to do with the list of files in Knoppix & Demo Linux..

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>   From: Dustin MacDonald

>   To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org

>   Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 7:06 AM

>   Subject: RE: [BL] LindowsOS 4.5

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>   uh, I don't mean to flame you or anything, but this is the BasicLinux mailing list. Despite that, I will answer your question.

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>   Yes, it is possible to format the D: drive & start over with a simpler version of Linux. Demo Linux, Knoppix Linux, Morphix Linux are all great versions for the simpleton. I think Morphix is the best, Knoppix & Demo Linux follow closely behind in that order.

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>   >From: "Martyn" <martynt AT bigpond.net.au>

>   >Reply-To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org

>   >To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>

>   >Subject: [BL] LindowsOS 4.5

>   >Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:16:43 +0930

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>   >I am new to this list. Need help with the following

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>   >LindowsOS 4.5 CD came attached to a $14 magazine. I installed LindowsOS 4.5 on a partition. No problems everything OK, but I get the strong feeling I've been hijacked again. It's very difficult to boot into windows now. There is an option to choose windows, if your quick enough. I don't like the way the choice to get into windows is so short.

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>   >There seems to be no way of escaping "Click n Run"  I'm supposed to get 2 weeks free, but that didn't seem to be so. I'm not interested in Click N Run I just want to familiarize myself with basic features of Linux. Linux is supposed to be simple isn't it?

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>   >I want a word processor, spreadsheet web access and e-mail nothing else.

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>   >I don't want to stuff things up. My query is If I format the partition ie the D drive which now has LindowsoS on it, I can start again and install a simpler version of Linux? and which version would be best. Can anyone advise. Keep it simple please!

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>   >Memory:         256 Mb

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>   >Hard disks:     19.1 Gb

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