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Re: Nearly there, linuxing ...

From "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid>
Newsgroups uk.radio.amateur, alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Nearly there, linuxing ...
Date 2016-06-29 16:57 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <nl0r59$rmd$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <nl0kue$4q4$1@dont-email.me>

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"gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote in message 
news:nl0kue$4q4$1@dont-email.me...
> In Linux, partition names are not in the same tree as directory names,
> and I cannot pin down whether my intended main partition should
> in fact be labelled "/".
> Much googling has no revealed the answer.
> Anyone here know the answer?
> Otherwise, puppy linux slacko-6.3.2-uefi is well on the way to replacing
> Windows XP.

All went well except that the menus.lst produced by puppy's version
of grub would not boot windows. So, resorting to the on-line manual,
copied verbatim what the manual said should be for the Windows boot
and now is all hunky dory!


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Nearly there, linuxing ... "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-29 15:11 +0100
  Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-06-29 16:14 +0200
  Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... Brian Reay <no.sp@m.com> - 2016-06-29 15:19 +0000
    Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... "Jim Stewart" <james.stewart497@ntlworld.com> - 2016-06-29 16:32 +0100
      Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-29 16:52 +0100
      Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... "A. non Eyemouse" <somewhere@work.invalid> - 2016-06-29 16:53 +0100
    Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.org.uk> - 2016-06-29 17:40 +0100
      Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... Brian Reay <no.sp@m.com> - 2016-06-30 00:16 +0000
  Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-29 16:57 +0100
  Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-06-29 11:02 -0500
  Re: Nearly there, linuxing ... AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2016-06-30 09:06 +0100

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