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RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
- To: "'Harold Hunt'" <huntharo at msu dot edu>, "'cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:50:17 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:34 PM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
>
>
> Suhaib,
>
> > Be careful when installing it might wipe out your Linux swap
> > partition, in worst scenario your entire Linux partition.
> Do not use
> > Disk 1 to install...
>
> I hate dual-booting.
Still use the Last CD, instead of 1st CD, to install. It gives you better
control to install, and create partitions. I hate the way Solaris does
auto-patitioning of disk...
>I'm installing it on one of my machines
> by itself. Hey, I've got four machines, might as well have a
> variety of OSes, right? Currently I have 3 Linux machine and
> 1 Windows 2000 machine, so I have to get more variety :)
>
Sure variety is good. Linux certainly forced two UNIX vendors to give out
their OS for free, Sun and SCO. SCO you cannot download, but for few US$
for a shipping and handling fee, they will ship OS, Tools and developments
disks.
Suhaib
> Harold
>