[OT] My laptop is heavier

[vu pham]

Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Andrew Gould wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>>
>> Maybe it's not a file issue; but rather, a file system issue?  I 
>> remember when I first tried Linux, I had to switch from fat to ext2.  
>> Once my PC was fat-free, it seemed much lighter/faster.
>>
>> Andrew
> 
> Well done!
> 

Going off fat-free is not easy. Yesterday I were trying to reinstall XP 
onto a notebook that had FC. The XP DVD just booted from the DVD then 
showing just a blank screen for ever ( at least up to 30 minutes ). 
Tried again with RHEL, FC, Knoppix DVDs, all booted fine.

Swapping the harddrive did not help. ( The 2nd hard drive also has Linux 
there ).

I wiped out the whole drive with /dev/zero then XP could be installed. 
It looks like XP does not like those fat-free material.


I do not know if the notebook is heavier or not :)  but I can see 
Netbeans runs more heavily after switching from FC to Windows.

Vu