Re: [Sheflug] Installing linux on a laptop

[Peter Collier <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One thing to be aware of - if part of the disk is bad there's a fair
> chance the disk is on it's last legs. Don't put anything important on it &
> if you get any more disk errors, throw it away and get one off ebay for
> £15 or less.
>
> -Andrew

Thanks for the advice Andrew. I will look out for another. Now I'm going to 
show my age here. I can recall some years ago when you used to be able to get 
these huge hard disks, which were 10 to 20 megs no less. It used to be common 
to find a lable stuck on, with the factory test results. These disks actually 
came with bad sectors on from new! The table mapped/advised you of bad 
sectors. I remember being excited over my 3rd computer, a 10 inch, green 
screen Olivetti, which was the first one I had with a hard drive. That was 
10megs with a 5.25 floppy. I still hadn't filled it some 6 months later!
		
			Peter C.
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