<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html style="direction: ltr;"> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body style="direction: ltr;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Lindsay Mathieson wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:49f8ec99.92.5525.1019290774@blackpaw.dyndns.org" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 08:23 +1000, Lindsay Mathieson </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:09:02 am Clay Weber wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I tend to agree, plus once the thread gets a bit long its a pain to scroll to the bottom of a message </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">particularly when people don't trim. > </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Then snip it :) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">You can hardly do that with other peoples emails. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">In a forum such as this, you are encouraged to do so, </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Sheeze. As should be perfectly clear I'm not talking about my replies, I talking about trying to read other peoples emails which have multipage chunks of superfluous text with the relevant bit tucked at the end out of sight. Lindsay Mathieson <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/album">http://members.optusnet.com.au/~blackpaw1/album</a> </pre> </blockquote> I want to get the thread back to my original question. As all of the reference to that has been snipped I'll repeat it with and added call for aid on the same subject. I asked if one could put Jaunty on an acer one with a 160giga HD. I understand the answer is yes and that no special "version" of *buntu is needed. Now for my follow up question. My acer came with XP installed and I have a 3 year guarantee policy. In order not to loose the guarantee I thought of cloning my XP onto a DVD and having it as "backup" to reinstall if ever i need to use the warranty. My idea was to then install Jaunty after formatting the HD. Is there a way to do what I want or should I just give up the idea and dual boot? <pre wrap="">About the posting question (answering so as not to be OT ( :-) ). I said when my "highjacked thread" was highjacked to this subject, there is much room for discussion. On the Ubuntu forum (Yahoo forums) this was discussed at length and everybody drew their own conclusion. I personally am with Lindsay but as you all can see, there are rules here and I am abiding by the rules and bottom-posting. Errol </pre> </body> </html>