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Old 11-17-2002, 10:15 PM   #1
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Post Why wont it work??


I have a crappy emachines computer and have tried to install a mandrake linux distrobution and a SuSe linux one but neither of them worked. Do any of you know why and how to make them work. also are there any good linux distrobutions that run on top of windows
 
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Any error messages? Did you check their websites for a hardware compatibility list?
 
  


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