[OT] Booting into IBM Rescue and Recovery

[Aroon Pahwa]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:34:33 -0400, Aroon Pahwa <viperstyx at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:59:51 -0400, christophe barbe
> <christophe at cattlegrid.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 11:45:17AM -0400, Aroon Pahwa wrote:
> > > i called them last night and i had to end up purchasing a rescue and
> > > recovery cd that will boot me into the partition for 45 dollars.  45
> > > dollars!  im slightly annoyed.  but oh well, this means i can mess
> > > things up as much as i want from  now on =]
> >
> > Thanks to your experience I called them to receive the CD. Since I
> > received the laptop last week I was not expecting to be asked for money
> > but he ask me to boot windows to show me how to burn it myself
> > (otherwise it would cost me). It confused me a few seconds since
> > I am not able to boot windows, but then I realized that I had no CD
> > burner in my x40 (or it's hidding very well). Finally I got the CD sent
> > to me for free.
> >
> > Two advices for futur x40 owners:
> > 1. If you have a CD burner, burn the CD before installing linux.
> > 2. Call soon after receiving your laptop to receive the CD for free.
> >
> > Christophe
> >
> > --
> > Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe at ufies.org>
> > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8  F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E
> >
> > Cats are intented to teach us that not everything in nature has a
> > function. --Garrison Keillor
> >
> >
> >
> 
> whoa what!
> 
> tell me how you got it for free!  im on the fone right now, about to
> pay 45 bucks!
> 
> 
> 
> aroon pahwa
> viperstyx at gmail.com
> 

wow, not only did IBM refuse to give me the cds for free, the told me
all about how they changed their policy from being able to get cds for
free within the first 30 days and then being able to buy them for 35
dollars to a stright, have to buy them for 45 dollars all the time.

i feel jipped!  so i havnt bought them yet.  45 bucks is a ton of money...arg.

aroon pahwa
poor college student.