Eric House wrote: > This is a rant, a warning, and a request for help. The help part: any > ideas on how to get Windows 7 Starter onto a netbook for which it's > licensed without buying a disk? > > The story: we've been waiting for the "Pinetrail" version of the Atom > to show up in netbooks, and so when Costco started carrying the > Samsung N-150 I snapped one up. As soon as it arrived I installed > Ubuntu "Netbook Remix". The installer for that distro doesn't support > LVM and won't let you install without creating a swap partition, so a > minimum of two partitions were required. Samsung's setup used three, > so I wiped it, figuring I could restore later (after enabling LVM and > freeing up the swap partition), and moved on. > > Big mistake. The device does not ship with any recovery media. > This won't solve your problem, but I am curious. The last several laptop type computers that friends have purchased did not include recovery media. One of the first tasks for the purchaser was to make it. Was that the situation with your Samsung? Or have things gotten even screwier?
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