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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   	Well it was not the PCLOS that did the dead but maybe a cold solder   
   joint on the main board of my old Compaq notebook.  On the 10th   
   of May my SATA connector failed to work properly and I took it to the   
   shop.  It was 5 years old and I doubt I could have rented a notebook   
   so cheaply as my price with memory update was <500 USD in 2009.   
      
   	Wednesday I found a HP Pavilion notebook with an AMD A10 with   
   4 cores, 8 GiB of ram and 750 GiB hard drive, sadly afflicted with   
   Windows 8.1. The partition utility on the 8.1 is head and shoulder   
   over the Vista version and shrunk the Windows partion to a tenth of   
   the original size.   
   	 I was able to boot PCLOS on the live DVD but it could not   
   understand the GPT partitioning scheme.  I looked on the web for a way   
   to deal with this and the hard-headed MS haters said to throw away   
   the GPT scheme and MS's pop creation.  I tried 3 various distributions   
   that have some UEFI compatibility but Mageia 4 failed, same with Fedora   
   20 and Knoppix 7.3.  I tried Open Mandriva but it did not work either,   
      
   	Finally late afternoon I tried Kubuntu 14.04 LTS and it worked.   
   Have rebooted several times and it seems to work but I don't like the   
   sudo system of doing things.  The KDE is 4.13.0 .the kernel is 3.13.0-20.   
      
   	Got to go to bed.   
      
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)