On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 16:33 -0700, RJ Gillis wrote: > Hopefully you can forward this to the correct party; everyone I've tried gets > my message returned stating: "you are not subscribed to this list". Yet, I > cannot find a way to subscribe, nor do I wish to. Thanks- RJ > > > Hi, I am hoping you can help me. I recently had to use 'safe mode' and > when rebooting, was offer the choice of 'windows' or 'debian installer'. > I have never seen or heard of debian before and no one else uses my pc, > so the question is; how did this get on my pc? I cruised your site and I > know it's an OS, but not how it got here. The only hardware changes I've > made recently are a new monitor and graphics card; neither disc includes > debian on it. Any clues? It sure is a mystery to me. > Thanks- RJ > >
Are you sure you don't have geeky friend's messing with you, trying to have you use Debian (Linux)? I can't say for sure how the Debian Installer got onto your computer, but it may have to do with the Debian Windows Installer project, check www.goodbye-windows.com, which basically loads the Debian OS installer from within MS Windows. It's neat... if you want it. As far as I know, no one has forced this on anyone unwilling. (Though there would be irony in forcing people to use a secure OS via a security hole in an insecure OS) To me this sounds like your opportunity to try out Debian GNU/Linux. If you're not interested, just select to load Windows. Check out here for how to fix your boot.ini file and go to Windows automatically when your PC boots up: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022 If you've accidentally stumbled upon Linux, why not give it a shot? I'll tell you one thing: you won't not know when you've installed a second operating system! (I've CC-ed to what I think might be the correct mailing lists for such a topic. If you reply, keep please keep these addresses in the CC field) -- Matthew K Poer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
