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From: wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat)
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Subject: Re: HP laptop dv6000 OS
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:57:35 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <iuiu9k$3pu$1@dont-email.me>, Bill  <llib@vacant.void.com> wrote:
>
>Ubuntu took less than an hour. And don't forget that XP announced up
>front that the install time was ~7 hours. If it were a flakey CD drive
>it couldn't have known what the time would be.

	Not necessarily.  Linux driver may handle read/write errors differently
(or even assume success!), or the particular location that's bad on the drive 
may not have been accessed by the linux install.