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On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon |
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<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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> > > confirm that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop |
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> > > blows the whole disk away and reformats it like it was new from |
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> > > the factory. With this disk anyway there was no way to get Vista |
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> > > onto the disk and save the existing Gentoo install. that will |
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> > > have to be reloaded form backups. |
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> > Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would have |
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> > given you a prompt. |
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> I don't follow Alan. |
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> The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to |
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> restore the disk to the way it was shipped from HP?" Answer no and it |
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> does nothing. Answer yes and if blows away all partitions, builds two |
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> new partitions, and puts the HP image on the disk. |
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> I don't follow what you mean? |
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It's a bizarre joke after a bizarre day :-) |
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The Windows recovery disk at least prompts you to answer yes. The Red |
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Hat PXE server doesn't. |
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The joke's on me - I was the one who installed that PXE server ... |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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