<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Desmond Armstrong</b> <<a href="mailto:desmond.armstrong@gmail.com">desmond.armstrong@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have in hand a machine with Linspire installed.<br>As the system is locked to the Linspire at some cost we wish to reformat<br>and to install a more sensible Linux. You cannot install even<br>OpenOffice.org.<br>The system does not accept rpm, very fundamental to any system.
<br>I have so far failed in my attempts to reformat the drive (200gig<br>Maxtor SATA).<br>Has anybody encountered this problem? and is there some knowledge of how<br>to deal with it?</blockquote><div><br><br><br>Errrrrrr Linspire comes with Openoffice preinstalled so you won't need to install it. It is based on Debian so you are correct , it won't use RPMs but DEBs as a standard install package, but you can use Alien to convert them RPMs to DEBs.
<br><br>How are you trying to format the drive? If you are installing a "more sensible linux" then surely it has drive partitioning software as part of the install process?<br><br>sorry - your email sounded like Linspire bashing and most people who do that either a) haven't tried it or b) don't get it!
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