On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > Good luck. After backing up my Gento
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> It gives me ideas, though. One could do that for Linux as well. But
> then, Who would have their Windows laptop set to boot from the
> network first? Still, tempting. ;-)
OK let's see.
Wake on LAN tightly coupled to a hacked PXE?
I feel a Pinky and The
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can
> > > confirm that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the lapto
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon
> > Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would
> > have given you a prompt.
>
> I don't follow Alan.
>
> The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to
> restore the
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can confirm
> > that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop blows the whole
> > disk away and reformats it li
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can confirm
> that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop blows the whole
> disk away and reformats it like it was new from the factory. With
> this disk anyway there was no way to get Vista
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2008 10:44:01 +0100
> Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would suggest - as long as you live in Sweden - the famous 9-in-1
> > OEM CD, from your favourite swashbuckling sea-dog. Ar, me
> > hearti
On Sat, 3 May 2008 10:44:01 +0100
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 2 May 2008, at 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Higgins
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> (Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.)
> >>
> >> I have a laptop with a spare par
On 2 May 2008, at 18:52, Michael Higgins wrote:
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I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install
from Dell OEM disks that came originally.
Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have
to re-install grub & that's it? '-)
See also Mark Knecht's
On 2 May 2008, at 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Higgins
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.)
I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install
from Dell OEM disks that came originally.
I would be ve
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.)
>
> I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install
> from Dell OEM disks that came originally.
>
> Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the
(Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.)
I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install
from Dell OEM disks that came originally.
Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have
to re-install grub & that's it? '-)
Cheers,
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