On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:46:25 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
What would you have done if the hard drive had failed?
I always image the windows disk and then wipe it, but I'm aware that
this is not completely reliable. some failures make restoration
impossible.
If the hard drive failed
On 7/22/2011 9:53 PM, CJoeB wrote:
Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the
warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about
leaving the status quo and putting up with Windows 7. However, I would
lose practically as much as losing my first born! I
On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 07:25:42 Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 7/22/2011 9:53 PM, CJoeB wrote:
Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the
warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about
leaving the status quo and putting up with Windows 7. However, I
You've had some very good advice from Mike + Mick,
but you can have a bit more re-assurance from me.
You shouldn't have a warranty problem if you keep Windows 7 installed.
For that, you can easily install Gentoo alongside it.
I did that with my Asus netbook, which came with XP :
I got XP to tell
On 07/22/11 23:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the
warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about
leaving the status quo and
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
On Fri, Jul 22 2011, CJoeB wrote:
Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the
warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about
leaving the status quo and putting up with Windows 7.
You have already received much good advice. I would add that dell
On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 14:28:32 CJoeB wrote:
The thing is, I don't want Windows on the computer at all. My laptop is
4 years old and it was booted into Windows once and that was only
because I didn't hit the F2 key fast enough to get into the bios to
change the boot order. Then, Windows
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
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
On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 17:49:53 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
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
On 7/23/2011 12:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
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
On Saturday 23 July 2011 16:11:20 Mick did opine thusly:
So, if I choose the amd64 iso and Stage 3, it doesn't have to be
on an AMD machine?
Correct, you will use this iso (or systemrescueCD or Knoppix) and a
Staqe 3 equivalent to build a system on an Intel 64bit CPU.
Just to flesh it
On Saturday 23 July 2011 18:35:20 Mick did opine thusly:
On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 17:49:53 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
I'm actually speaking from experience here: the first thing
I did on my Inspiron was wipe the HD and install Gentoo,
On 07/23/11 18:24, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 23 July 2011 16:11:20 Mick did opine thusly:
So, if I choose the amd64 iso and Stage 3, it doesn't have to be
on an AMD machine?
Correct, you will use this iso (or systemrescueCD or Knoppix) and a
Staqe 3 equivalent to build a system on an
Hi everyone,
First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS.
Can I be honest here? My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere
near on a par with most of the people on this list. I've been using
Gentoo since 2004 and the reason I do, is for the control that I have
over my system.
Because
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 21:53 -0400, CJoeB wrote:
Hi everyone,
First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS.
Can I be honest here? My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere
near on a par with most of the people on this list. I've been using
Gentoo since 2004 and the reason I do,
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS.
Can I be honest here? My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere
near on a par with most of the people on this list. I've been using
Gentoo since 2004
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