[ale] Removing the windisease from netbooks (another one cured)

[Jim Kinney]

he, he. cue Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust"  :-)

fdisk cures all Microsoft virus problems!

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:52 AM, arxion <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> This person contacted me directly with the request below.
> Was about to forward it to the list when I noticed his
> second email. Seems he was successful in curing his new
> Gateway netbook of windisease without us. :-)
>
> ======== first email  =======
> On 2009, Nov, 27, , at 10:34 PM, G Irwin wrote:
> > I just bought a new Gateway netbook and want to install Ubuntu Remix.
> > It does not have a DVR/CD drive and I don't have a clue how do it from
> > a USB drive. Who can you recommend to talk me through this or do it
> > for me. I don't mind paying a reasonable price for the help. I have
> > been uning Ubuntu for a while, but consider myself a novice since I
> > have to Google every time I do something and this time I may be too
> > far out of my league. I'm in Alpharetta for the weekend at my
> > daughter's house,
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gordon Irwin
> > 865-268-9898
>
>
> =======  second email =======
> On 2009, Nov, 28, , at 1:06 AM, G Irwin wrote:
> > Never mind my request. It took me about three hours, but I actually
> > have Ubuntu 9.10 up and running thanks to the great on-line community
> > support forums that already had all of the answers I needed to put
> > Ubuntu on a USB flash drive and install it including the wireless! To
> > my continued amazement every thing seems to be working perfectly!
> >
> > I'm going to be living in the Atlanta area in the near future
> > part-time and might be interested in the Linux Group after I retire
> > next summer and will be here more.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Gordon Irwin
>
>
> =======
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James P. Kinney III
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