Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

[Mike Edenfield]

On 7/23/2011 7:47 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 07:25:42 Mike Edenfield wrote:

> I seem to recall a case where a user wiped their drive clean and installed
> Ubuntu or some such.  The laptop went faulty and the person asked for it to be
> repaired/replaced under warranty, only to be told that this could not be
> honoured without the original OS on the machine!  I think it was this one:

I'm actually speaking from experience here: the first thing 
I did on my Inspiron was wipe the HD and install Gentoo, 
only to learn that the wireless card was faulty. And since I 
could not run the standard Windows diagnostics they couldn't 
(wouldn't?) help me.

So I booted the restore CD, put Windows back, and got a new 
NIC within about a week.

--Mike