From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:55:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2AE0CF.4040408@kutulu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107231247.27328.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On 7/23/2011 7:47 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 07:25:42 Mike Edenfield wrote:
> I seem to recall a case where a user wiped their drive clean and installed
> Ubuntu or some such. The laptop went faulty and the person asked for it to be
> repaired/replaced under warranty, only to be told that this could not be
> honoured without the original OS on the machine! I think it was this one:
I'm actually speaking from experience here: the first thing
I did on my Inspiron was wipe the HD and install Gentoo,
only to learn that the wireless card was faulty. And since I
could not run the standard Windows diagnostics they couldn't
(wouldn't?) help me.
So I booted the restore CD, put Windows back, and got a new
NIC within about a week.
--Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-23 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-23 1:53 [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused CJoeB
2011-07-23 2:27 ` William Kenworthy
2011-07-23 3:07 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-23 13:28 ` CJoeB
2011-07-23 15:11 ` Mick
2011-07-23 20:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-07-23 22:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2011-07-23 22:58 ` CJoeB
2011-07-23 6:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-07-23 11:47 ` Mick
2011-07-23 14:55 ` Mike Edenfield [this message]
2011-07-23 16:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-23 17:35 ` Mick
2011-07-23 22:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-23 18:46 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-07-24 16:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-23 12:31 ` Philip Webb
2011-07-23 15:06 ` Allan Gottlieb
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