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On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can confirm |
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> that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop blows the whole |
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> disk away and reformats it like it was new from the factory. With |
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> this disk anyway there was no way to get Vista onto the disk and save |
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> the existing Gentoo install. that will have to be reloaded form |
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> backups. |
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Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would have given |
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you a prompt. |
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At my last job I got given a brand new Dell notebook with Windows on it. |
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I had it 10 minutes when I took it into my Red Hat course room and |
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switched on. A student was asking questions and I got distracted, so |
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absent-mindedly got into the BIOS setup and changed the boot order. |
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Next time I looked, Windows was *gone* and a full default RHEL 4 |
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install was in place (!). No prompt, no warning, nadda, zip. |
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The absence of Windows was welcome, the absence of a prompt was less so. |
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Then again, I should have known better seeing as the idiot who set up |
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the PXE server originally was me :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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