On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 10:17 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2004, at 10:06 PM, Joe and Colleen Huber wrote:
> 
> > I wasn't specifically told that the warranty would be voided if I were 
> > to do
> > so. Mostly a concern/worry based on some mumbo-jumbo on the HP website 
> > about
> > incurring additional costs under warranty if you "modify the system" 
> > there
> > by making it "harder to service" (or something of the sort)... that 
> > and the
> > tendency of the big name manfactures to be at beck and call of 
> > Microsoft...
> 
> If that just means that they don't support Linux,  I can live with that.
> >
> > Haven't decided what I'm going to do. The new system is still in the 
> > box...
> > I was thinking that 250G UATA Maxtor from costco (and I suppose chew 
> > up a
> > PCI slot) putting a 100G or so partition that leaves room to do 
> > something
> > later with a distro in another partition. Then for the time being just 
> > wipe
> > W2000 on the Dell P4/450 and put Debain on. The Dell is still chugging 
> > at 5+
> > years - thou I opened it last night and I'm surprised it hasn't burst 
> > into
> > flames with all the dust sitting in there (you could grow potatoes in 
> > the
> > damn thing)...
> 
> Well, this is  just me but I'd make sure I had some kind of restore CD 
> and then just try Linux. You can always use the restore CD to put it 
> back to factory condition so HP can't say that the system 'has been 
> modified'. 
----
somewhat SOP
hello tech support - my computer doesn't do ...
put in Restore CD and choose Restore System (on Apple, it's 'Archive &
Install')

seems as though if things break, that's what they're gonna have you do
before they fix anything anyway.

Craig

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