On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon
<alan.mckinnon@(protected):
> > On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can
> > > confirm that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop
> > > blows the whole disk away and reformats it like it was new from
> > > the factory. With this disk anyway there was no way to get Vista
> > > onto the disk and save the existing Gentoo install. that will
> > > have to be reloaded form backups.
> >
> > Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would have
> > given you a prompt.
>
> I don't follow Alan.
>
> The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to
> restore the disk to the way it was shipped from HP?" Answer no and it
> does nothing. Answer yes and if blows away all partitions, builds two
> new partitions, and puts the HP image on the disk.
>
> I don't follow what you mean?

It's a bizarre joke after a bizarre day :-)

The Windows recovery disk at least prompts you to answer yes. The Red
Hat PXE server doesn't.

The joke's on me - I was the one who installed that PXE server ...


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