Getting rid of Linux

[Sunfire]

like jfw
eats ram like there is enough for the whole world!! what a rip off!!
jfw has caused an error in JHOOK.dll. jfw will now close.....

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Date 10/02/2002 Time 12:35
JFW caused an invalid page fault in
module WINMM.DLL at 0197:bfdd3538.
Registers:
EAX=00000003 CS=0197 EIP=bfdd3538 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=8303b08c SS=019f ESP=02dcff20 EBP=02dcff6c
ECX=023ba000 DS=019f ESI=bfdd3529 FS=1c6f
EDX=82f3d5a8 ES=019f EDI=c1b49430 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
89 41 10 ff 72 0c 68 bd 03 00 00 ff 72 58 e8 42
Stack dump:
00000000 bff754f2 82f3d5a8 c1b49430 000000c0 8303b08c 00000001 00000000
00000000 00000001 81d469fc 00000001 e6a6d8b4 bff641cf 02dcfd50 02dcffbc
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: Getting rid of Linux


> I've had pretty good luck  with Parted except for one time when I ran it
> off the Slackware Live CD that comes with the boxed version of Slackware
> 8.1.  The problem was that since the Live CD uses a RAM disk for the root
> filesystem and I only have 32MB of RAM, it ran out of memory while
> resizing a partition.  When you run out of memory in Linux, the kernel
> kills the offending program.  The result was that Parted got killed in the
> middle of resizing.  Needless to say, I had to restore that partition from
> backup as well as my entire Slackware system.  The moral of the story is
> that if you are short on memory, either don't use Parted from a floppy, or
> find some free hard drive space to use as swap.  Actually, this seems to
> hold true for any disk intensive operations as those seem to be the ones
> that eat memory.
>
>
>
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