-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:38:04PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:19:39AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > The sensible way to handle hardware support independent of any installed > > > software would be to ship each pc with a bootable CD with custom Dell test > > > software. Linux would make a convenient base for such a CD. > > This is something I have mentioned in other places: bios updates, > > hardware testing and other issues. You need a linux-based or similar > > test cd so that if have a hardware issue or need a bios update that the > > tech support folks stop saying 'but you need to use windows for us to > > diagnose the problem before we can authorizes this' or similar. > > FWIW, the diagnostics, etc CD that Dell ships with servers is Linux > based. As I mentioned, I found a cd for servers for management but nothing about diagnostics. Do you have a url or more info so that I google better? - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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