[OT] My laptop is heavier

[vu pham]

Bob Hemus wrote:
> 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
> 

No, I didn't. That makes sense. I should have done that to make XP to 
recognized its "friends" :)
I believe XP installation looks for something on the hard drive because 
the system showed a lot of hard drive 's activities  when the screen was 
blank. That's why I thought of zeroing the drive.



Vu