[Chester LUG] Can anyone help

[Les Pritchard]

Hi Roger,

Did you get any response to this email?  I've just got back off holiday.

Thanks

Les

On 9/3/06, Roger Gibson <rcgibson at talktalk.net> wrote:
>
> I brought my young friend Patrick to Thursday's meet in Chester.  He is
> a total Linux novice, but is showing interest and looks to be getting
> stuck in.  He has a laptop with Windows mounted and tried first a Mepis
> live CD I got from a recent Linux Format.
>
> So that he could work with good documentation for his first
> installation, I gave him a Susi 9.1 distro, complete with a couple of
> thick tomes.  He has got this running OK since Thursday, but is now in
> trouble, and I'm not suffiently adept myself to help him over the phone.
>
> I don't think he defragmented his disc before loading Susi, so may have
> lost some windows stuff (not sure how clever the Susi partitioner is).
> Anyway, to shorten a long story, he used his Mepis live CD to
> repartition for a second time to give himself more windows disc space,
> and is now having trouble with the bootloader, and cannot run anything,
> except the Mepis live distro.  He is backed up, but I'm not sure if he
> has all the necessary to reload Windows, or how illegit it is.
>
> If anyone thinks they can help, please 'e'mail me and I'll put you in
> touch with Patrick.  I'd like to get a school lad keen on Linux, and I
> think he might well get some of his mates interested if he can get going
> well.
>
> Many thanks - Roger.
>
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