[OT] My laptop is heavier

[Bob Hemus]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:23 -0600, vu pham wrote:
> 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

Did you reformat it to DOS?
Bob