On Sat, 3 May 2008 10:44:01 +0100
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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:
SNIP
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
hearties!
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 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 like it
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 disk to
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 laptop
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 Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On 2 May 2008, at 18:52, Michael Higgins wrote:
...
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
(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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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 MBR.
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