AJL wrote on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:40
3 -0700:
> BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>
>> Hello AJL! Did you know that Asus Xandros recovery DVD (or was it your
>> Windows machine one?) can be used in another computer with a drive and
>> it can create the recovery on a flash drive? I believe it needs to be at
>> least 2GB in size.
>
> Hello Bill, yes I think I remember you giving that info here awhile
> back.
Ok
>> There are ways to get by without an external DVD drive.
>
> And that may become necessary someday for my Xandros powered Eee PC 2G
> Surf netbook. It won't recognize my newer HP slimline external DVD
> drive. And I've never been able to find a driver to get it to work.
> But it still recognizes my several year old monster sized externally
> powered HP DVD drive so I'm OK for now...
Xandros doesn't recognize it or the BIOS doesn't? If the latter, Xandros
probably will never see it unless the BIOS can. If the BIOS can see it,
then you should be able to reinstall Xandros through the drive anyway.
You can tell if the BIOS sees it by hitting the ESC key before Linux
boots up. That kicks in the boot menu. And it will show up in the list
if the BIOS sees it.
> My XP powered Eee PC 1000HD recognizes the slimline drive just fine so
> no problem there.
Oh good deal there.
> The reason I used the recovery disk on my 1000HD is that with all the
> updates it seemed to be getting somewhat sluggish. After the recovery
> it is back to its old snappy self. Quite a noticeable difference. So
> this time I've turned off all the OS update stuff (apps too) and will
> just use it that way awhile and see what happens... =8-O
>
> I think you do that on one or more of your laptops also IIRC...
Yes I turned off Windows updates on one computer over a year ago. Lots
of people said this was a bad idea. But I did it as a test and it worked
so well, I later stopped all Windows updates on 6 other computers a few
months later. And I haven't had any problems yet. If one ever does, I
keep them all isolated anyway from each other. And no one system totally
going down means nothing to me. As the rest could quickly carry the load
anyway.
So I am starting to think that Windows updates are far more scarier than
viruses themselves. As I haven't seen any viruses myself before or
after. But I have seen Windows updates screw up one's computer. The good
news is the next one usually fixes it. But the next one later breaks it
again. And the cycle repeats. <sigh>
--
Bill
2 Asus EEE PC 7014G ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
2 Asus EEE PC 7028G ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2/SP3 ~ Xandros Linux