I think this is also interesting for debian-user ;) On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:07:05 -0500 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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) > -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
