Re: Is SuSe ready for me yet?


Darrell Stec wrote:
After serious contemplation, on or about Friday 11 August 2006 1:41 am
felmon davis perhaps from davisf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:24:21 -0400, Darrell Stec wrote:

HP/Compaqs don't seem to have that same problem as frequently,
however they do suffer from the disease of having the entire OS,
drivers, and
applications installed on a hidden partition. The new computer owner
is supposed to run a (hidden deep inside the Programs-->Accessories
hierarchy) proceedure to archive the partition to 9 (or 13 depending
upon the computer model) CDs.

I seem to recall reading one can copy the contents of the directory
'c:\i386' and use an executable there to restore from. this will fit
on one cd.

Felmon

I don't think you understood what I wrote. On a HP/Compaq machine one
does not get WinXP, nor any of the proprietary drivers, nor the
applications on CDs. The new owner is required to run a proceedure
that archives the hidden partition when they first purchase the
computer BEFORE doing anything else. Almost nobody does. So if the
hard drive goes, the customer has no Operating System CDs with WinXP
(or whatever), no application CDs and no Drivers CD. The archive CDs
(all 9 or 13 of them) will allow one to restore the entire hidden
partition, after which the OS and applications can be restored to the
computer.

In any case, if the need arises, re-installing the system from scratch
will not be as easy and user friendly as Markzoom seems to think.

??? I don't even buy yank big-name crap (nor do I use Aholes On Line)
and avoid brand systems altogether, they are no more reliable than
home-assembled mongrel computers.



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