[OT] Booting into IBM Rescue and Recovery

Aroon Pahwa viperstyx at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 15:14:40 UTC 2004


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:47:16 +0200, Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe at ufies.org>
> > > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8  F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E
> > >
> > > Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
> > > -- Albert Einstein
> > >
> > >
> > >

good news everyone!  IBM visited our campus today and all had to do
was tell them i just bought an X40 and they got me the cds for free!

yay for being a poor college student...at an awesome school =]

aroon pahwa
viperstyx at gmail.com




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