ms free

By anders pearson 13 Nov 2001

the CD-RW drive i bought a long time back didn’t have linux support at the time so i was forced to keep a small windows partition on my home machine just so i could burn CDs.

<p>a few months ago, the drive gave out (hardware or software i don&#8217;t know). i&#8217;m too poor to buy a new one right away (but those 16&#215;10&#215;40&#8217;s do look awful sweet) so i decided to hell with it all and when i upgraded the home machine to mandrake 8.1 tonight, just killed the whole partition scheme and started over (wanted to put reiserfs on it anyway). </p>

<p>no more windows partition. yay. it&#8217;s not like i&#8217;ve used windows for anything more than &#8220;boot windows. burn cd. boot back to linux&#8221; for the last couple years but it makes me feel much cleaner to just not have it on the machine at all.</p>

<p>interestingly enough, mandrake seems to have detected my CD-R drive this time; perhaps there is linux support now after all. if it <em>was</em> just a software error under windows, i may have it back without needing windows at all. </p>

<p>if i had a microwave, i could microwave my windows disk&#8230;</p>