Josh said that HP used to be known for quality. I guess that "used to be" is the operative expression. There is only 30 days of support for their ink jet printers, and only 1 year for their Laser-Jets. After that, it will cost you big bucks for telephone support. I'm pretty bummed, since I have a couple of their printers, and I have needed support on the Laser-Jet. Fortunately under the 1 year point, but not much. Don't know how they support their computers. --doug At 18:19 01/30/2002 -0800, Big Al wrote:
Sheesh,it sounds like you're S.O.L. without a CD. I never could understand the idea of shipping a computer without the operating system CD.
Oh well, it sounds like you can boot from lilo or grub. This might interest you also: http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0125.boot.html
Good luck,
Al
On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 17:44,Joshua Lee wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:09:15PM -0800, Big Al wrote: [...]
If you have written lilo to the Windows partition, the original Windows boot sector can be restored by booting to the Windows install CD. I forget the details, but it is one of the repair options.
I have XP Home ed. pre-installed with a BIOS lock, my computer didn't come with a WinXP install CD. In fact, unfortunately, it doesn't even come with a vendor rescue CD. The space in the top of the case for the rescue CD they must have included in the near-past before they found another way to increase profits has a cute little CD-shaped piece of cardboard with the phone number of Hewlett-Packard's toll support line. Cheapskates. They did include a special propritary rescue partition in the hard-drive, so it is possible to roll the computer back to the original condition; but who knows what'll happen to XP if the HD really gets fouled up. I got this system because HP used to be known for quality, but considering this I feel a little disappointed.