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[Matthew Flaschen]

Raquel wrote:
> I can attest to the "betterness" of the text installer.  A couple of
> weeks ago I downloaded the dvds and tried twice to install over
> Vista, using the graphical installer.  I didn't like the results at
> all.

It has nothing to do with Vista.

> Then I tried the text installer which worked like a charm.  This
> was on a new laptop, HP G70-246US.

Like I said, it's the hardware.  It's not a coincidence that you both
have fairly new machines.

Matt Flaschen