[OT] Booting into IBM Rescue and Recovery

[Erik Bågfors]

You can always get IBM to ship you the CDs. I've done that myself.

/Erik

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:53:43 -0400, Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail.com> wrote:
> staring at my shiny (well, pitch black) R40 here.  Just read this
> thread and am wondering how to make the install/recovery cd's?
> 
> there is no mention of it in the docs that come on the machine.
> 
> would _really_ love to know how to do this so I can wipe this thing and ubu it.
> 
> -noah
> 
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:19:37 -0400, christophe barbe
> 
> 
> <christophe at cattlegrid.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:34:33AM -0400, Aroon Pahwa wrote:
> > > whoa what!
> > >
> > > tell me how you got it for free!  im on the fone right now, about to
> > > pay 45 bucks!
> >
> > Well I did told him that I would send the laptop back if I had to pay
> > for the CD. Moreover the reason he gave me for the money was that it was
> > possible to burn it myself but since I don't have a CD burner he finally
> > agreed to send it to me.
> > I think they have some latitude in their decision to send for free or
> > not.
> > Anyway given the price of the laptop, I don't see why they don't give
> > the dammned CD right away.
> >
> > Christophe
> >
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