What happened is that the equipment manufacturer did an "OEM install", that means that they did an almost normal install, with one exception, the installer uses a "first boot" program that, when booting the first time after the install asks a few questions, then finishes the install with the information from the user. It comes down to simply configuring a few small things, that is all. So there is NO separate partition holding a complete "install image"! That would be a prohibitively expensive option witch such a small storage system too, because it would "eat up", almost the same amount of space on your drive as the installed OS.
So the "normal" re-install is actually the -only- option to re- install. AFAIK your only options are to attach an external CD player, OR to use a USB memory stick, configured as a Live_USB stick. I know of no other options, theoretically you can install Linux over a network, But I never heard anybody do that on a netbook. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... On 4 nov, 20:23, bamboopiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! I've just purchased a Sylvania G Netbook which comes with gOS > Escape Pod installed (this is a special distro just for this > machine.) > > When I first turned it on, it prompted me to enter the language, > timezone, etc. and THEN installed the OS. As far as I can tell, this > means that the OS was copied to somewhere on the computer (although > it's not partitioned), but not installed as the OS. I could be wrong > about the partitioning thing and even the installed thing, though, > since they try to set up these machines for Windows-transitioners and > I have not spent a lot of time poking around in it. > > At any rate, I would like to restore the machine to its factory > conditions. I know how to reinstall gOS the normal way, which would > mean making the ISO file accessible from a USB drive, setting the > language, etc. and then installing it from a USB drive. But this is > not what I want to do. > > Instead, I want to configure it so that the gOS ISO file is somewhere > on the machine (where???) but when the next person turns it on it will > prompt them for the language etc. and then do the install WITHOUT > requiring a USB drive or CD. Everything should be self-contained on > the machine as it was when I first opened it. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? I'm getting a new > machine so I'd like to give this one away in the condition that I > recieved it, with gOS just about to be installed without an CD > necessary. > > Thanks! > > bamboopiper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
