[NYLoCo] [Fwd: Message from David Krings]

[hendrixski]

Karlie,
Does on-disk do snapshots of repositories for just Ubuntu or for Fedora 
7 as well?


jeremy austin-bardo wrote:
> Any Ideas for this guy? Got this from the web form. I will forward them
> to him.
>  
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: XXXXXXXXXX
> To: Website Message <webmaster at newyork-ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Message from David Krings
> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:31:31 -0500
>
> Hi!
> My name is David Krings from Schenectady and I write this from a working
> Linux system. So far so good - or not. It is Fedora 7 and I\'m quite
> unhappy with it, mainly because it is so difficult to obtain
> applications (slow connections to repositories, only non 64bit
> rpms, ....).
> I usually use Ubuntu, but Ubuntu is fakeraid unaware and the fakeraid
> howtos just confuse me more than they help. The troublespot is usually
> Grub, as it is a bit dumb and very user-unfriendly. The reason why I use
> Fedora is that Fedora does know the nVidia SATA FakeRAID and has the
> dmraid support right out of the box, which it seems Ubuntu 7.10 still
> does not have, which is really beyong my comprehension.
> Enough of the whining and down to what I really want. I want Ubuntu, on
> my fakeraid, as a triple boot with XP64bit and XP32bit. I know I could
> wipe the whole drive and just use Ubuntu with a software RAID, but
> although I am ready for that, the many hardware vendors and Linux
> distros aren\'t.
> Anyh ow, is there any chance to get some help in getting this going?
> Someone who doesn\'t mind an email and tells me once in a while what an
> idiot I am for being too stupid to follow cryptic directions?
> I just need this push over the cliff and hope that someone can assist.
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> David 
>
>