On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@(protected):
>
> 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 ...
>
OK, thanks to you and Uwe for explaining.

- Mark
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