On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:55, you wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:16, Andrew Errington wrote: > > Thanks for the uber-geek nerd synopsis. �What would a lazy-geek nerd > > do? > > He'd compress the file-set into a cpio.bz2 archive and store it away in a > spare, unmounted, partition and then use a special bootable floppy to > restore the whole exercise.
He might. But he might have to learn a serious lesson first. In the interim he has taken notes for everything that was done (and was pleased to note that most things worked as expected). > He'd also update the BIOS and Embedded Controller. Checked and not necessary. > If it was a more recent machine, he'd blow way a few hours and do for > Linux what IBM does for Windows on the later models. i.e. "Press this > button on boot up and your machine will have a Lazarus experiernce". I think your definition of lazy differs from mine. Andy
