-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 4:47 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:37:50 -0700 > > Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still think you should wander into the local dealer's shop with a > > boot-able livecd and try it. > > Do you have any experience with positive/negative reactions of salespeople > to a customer wanting to boot one of their display machines from one of > these Live CD's?
None of the shops in town here ever argue with me about it any more. Most of the sales people ask for the disk after the demo. I go through more CD-Rs that way.... I often wonder if that has anything to do with booting a brand new, no OS loaded system pulled out of a box. Had been assembled but no software or operating system was loaded. Knoppix found everything and ran fine. I've pulled that stunt more than once, in more than one place. Including Future Shop on an HP display model running Windows XP. I actually unplugged the hard drive on the first one of those. The "manager" of one store was insisting that Windows had to be installed to run "Linux" (pronounced incorrectly) and other fallacies. He soon shut up, and hides in the back whenever I walk in to buy parts now. (-; > I'm just curious about whether they would be a bit reticent to let a > customer load "unknown" software onto thier merchandise. Usually once they know that the livecd distribution runs from the CD and the memory they become very curious. Some have to be asked whether they would like to do business in the future, but not often. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 16:51:09 up 1 day, 5:49, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.08 There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity. -- General Douglas MacArthur -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1mJqZqvqlrLPr5YRArDNAJ9O8PK1xp94/lURxO3ZJzLWW+o9LwCfbsXz aYj3+eF364U95topSuLzhfI= =/tt+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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