When Windows Met Ubuntu

By Oli on Thursday, 23rd February 2006. More information. Comments.

I don't like be cruel to people but this experience of a friend of mine, seopher, installing — I should say "trying to install" — Ubuntu. I've personally never

I don't like be cruel to people but this experience of a friend of mine, seopher, installing — I should say "trying to install" — Ubuntu. I've personally never installed it but I've done several installs of debian, fedora, knoppix and (as it was then) Mandrake.

... the major oversight being that my memory doesn't work so well when differntiating between similar sounding words. I *should* have been making a ROOT folder, but instead I made a BOOT folder...

Leading onto:

So I don't have a working installation of Ubuntu, nor do I have my XP system working either. What's worse, is the only two episodes of Malcolm in the Middle on my laptop are running for the second time around...

Malcolm in the Middle is the true tragedy here.

For the full story, take a peek at (MYSPACE WARNING) seopher's blog

Written by Oli on Thursday, 23 February 2006. Tagged with seopher, linux, ubuntu, funny. Read 1313 times. If you liked it, please give it a digg.

#1 — Author comment /* 3 years, 9 months ago */

Fool him once: shame on Ubuntu. Fool him twice: shame on him.

Update:
Well he got Windows working again... Then he tried to install ubuntu again and everythings dead =\

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#2 — Author comment /* 3 years, 9 months ago */

God knows who's to be shames when he's fooled thrice.

He got back into Windows AGAIN (lucky bastard), tried ubuntu again and rajjed everything up so much he had to do a windows repair install... the only problem is, it gets stuck at the famous 34 minute line. Marvellous.

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#3 /* 3 years, 7 months ago */

new home for this story:
http://www.seopher.com/articles/how_not_to_install_linux_ubuntu

The shame should not end.

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