[QCLUG] Newbie having installation errors

[Mark Riedesel]

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What's the make/model of the computer? Perhaps it's a known issue, I could
do a little googling.

Unfortunately Geek Squad has proven themselves to be ignorant in many
things. The most recent story I heard ( about a month ago ) involved a
friend bringing in his laptop for repair due to random lock-ups, memtest
also reported thousands of errors. Their immediate diagnosis was that Linux
was the culprit.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Luis Gonzalez <ljgonzalezjr@gmail.com>wrote:

> Just tried the gparted live CD.  I set 52GB for Ext3 and 1.94GB for
> Linux-Swap.  When it started to partition ext3 it failed as well.  I don't
> know what it can be.  It seems that it just doesn't want linux on it.
> Yesterday when I tried the whole disc, I had the same thing happen, and lost
> VISTA and Everything.  But when I went to reinstall VISTA so that I can have
> an OS to work with, the installation went smooth.  I don't know if there is
> some kind of proprietary code not letting me install any other OS.  I will
> not give up on Linux, if I can't get it to work on this machine, then I will
> buy another that I can install it on.  Does anyone know if Best Buys Geek
> Squad might be able to help?  Thanks for all the help though.
>
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