On 14 Sep 2003 11:51:51 -0700, myob wrote:
>
>
> You will need a bootable CD-ROM or the USB floppy drive and a bootable
> floppy diskette.
>
> Insert the bootable media and power up the machine.
>
> You will be given a couple of seconds to press the key to do a
> one time
> boot device change. This happens before the click through license is
> displayed.
>
> Select the CD-ROM drive or USB floppy drive and boot without accepting
> the
> click through license.
>
> At this point you should burn the image of the hard disk onto another
> device
> so you can restore it if you have any problems in the future.
>
> Apparently Dell laptops are so poorly built that installing a new OS
> voids the
> warranty.
>

Bet you that's M$ gangsterism instead of poor workmanship you are dealing
with.

Gateway won't sell a blank computer: It come's with M$ or you don't get
it.


> Have a nice day, and next time you need a laptop, do not buy a Dell.
> I would not have if my employer had not paid for it.


Good of you to post this for now and the Archives.

AC


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On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:51:51 -0700, myob wrote:

> You will need a bootable CD-ROM or the USB floppy drive and a bootable
> floppy diskette.
>
> Insert the bootable media and power up the machine.
>
> You will be given a couple of seconds to press the key to do a one
> time
> boot device change. This happens before the click through license is
> displayed.
>
> Select the CD-ROM drive or USB floppy drive and boot without accepting the
> click through license.
>
> At this point you should burn the image of the hard disk onto another
> device
> so you can restore it if you have any problems in the future.
>
> Apparently Dell laptops are so poorly built that installing a new OS voids
> the
> warranty.
>
> Have a nice day, and next time you need a laptop, do not buy a Dell. I
> would not have if my employer had not paid for it.

Will you expand a little on the ramifications if you DO accept the click
through license. Can you no longer boot from anything BUT the hard drive?

s. keeling wrote:
>
> I really like my I4k. It is good hardware and Dell do have decent
> policies about swapping out/in features at purchase time.
> Unfortunately, this doesn't extend to the bundled sh*tware. Dell's
> just as addicted to MS as pretty well everybody else is these days.

I know one sale they lost due to not being able to get a system
without having to pay the microsoft tax. Then again I've built 7
other systems since then and didn't even bother looking to DELL
or any other systems manufacturer so they may have lost a couple
more sales since then as well.

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On 14 Nov 2003 22:28:36 GMT, keeling@spots.ab.ca (s. keeling) wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:46:44 GMT,

.... why on EARTH have you resurrected a thread from sept?
..
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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:04:31 GMT, mjt :
> On 14 Nov 2003 22:28:36 GMT, keeling@spots.ab.ca (s. keeling) wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:46:44 GMT,
>
> ... why on EARTH have you resurrected a thread from sept?

Why the needless obsession with currency?

It appeared to me that no-one had answered him, so I did. Better late
than never.


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