[OT] My laptop is heavier

[james at jamesmcdonald.id.au]

> 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 have had this issue before. I think I just deleted all the partitions
and may have(can't remember) blatted the MBR and I think from then on it
booted OK.

Annoying time waster when you first come up against it.