[SWLUG] Xandros experience

[Pete Prior]

Rhys,

Use fdisk /mbr off a dos  / windows boot disk to get rid of grub.

Pete

hys Sage wrote:
> I had Ubuntu installed on my machine and decided to
> install Xandros. That was an interesting experience. I
> put the CD in, downloaded from the Xandros website,
> and the machine chugged through various boot messages
> before displaying the Xandros logo and then up came a
> message "remove CD. Press enter to reboot". I did as I
> was told and the system rebooted - straight into
> Ubuntu. Ok. Something's a bit stuffed there, I figured
> so I reformatted the HDD as FAT 32 and put the Xandros
> CD back in. It chugged along as before and then came
> up with a Grub 17 error before hanging. Interesting!
> 
> Anyway, as we're a bit short on PCs (one Dell 600
> which is so obsolete there's no point in using it, One
> Dell 8100 which is short on Rambus memory which is so
> expensive and so difficult to get that it's not worth
> the effort - especially since it's an obsolete
> machine), I'm now trying to put Windows 98 onto the
> Dell 4300s but even though the disk has been formatted
> and Windows reinstalled, it's coming up with that
> dratted Linux leftover: Grub 1.5 Error 17 and then
> hanging. That Dell had XP on it originally but there
> seemed to be files missing from the Dell installation
> CD which meant that as the XP installation was
> corrupt, I could not reinstall XP. 
> 
> /rant
> What is it with these computers? I have a very slow
> Dell 600 that's well nigh useless for anything. I have
> a Dell 4300s that shrugs off every attempt to install
> Windows. I have a Dell 8100 that's chronically
> underpowered with memory and which isn't worth
> upgrading and I have an HP a705w that works but which
> seems to fry additional memory - every time it's
> added.
> 
> In addition to that... both manufacturers claim their
> machines take a different kind of memory from that
> which is installed in the machines! What is it with
> these manufacturers. The Dell has memory that Ubuntu
> identified as PC133 and Dell identifies as DDR 2100.
> To me, it looks awfully like DDR 2700 - as printed on
> the label on the memory.
> /rant
> 
> It seems that what this household needs is a big skip
> to dump all the old computers in and a budget big
> enough to buy new computers.
> 
> 
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