On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Good luck. After backing up my Gentoo laptop install I can > > > confirm that the HP Recovery Disk that comes with the laptop > > > blows the whole disk away and reformats it like it was new from > > > the factory. With this disk anyway there was no way to get Vista > > > onto the disk and save the existing Gentoo install. that will > > > have to be reloaded form backups. > > > > Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would have > > given you a prompt. > > I don't follow Alan. > > The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to > restore the disk to the way it was shipped from HP?" Answer no and it > does nothing. Answer yes and if blows away all partitions, builds two > new partitions, and puts the HP image on the disk. > > I don't follow what you mean?
It's a bizarre joke after a bizarre day :-) The Windows recovery disk at least prompts you to answer yes. The Red Hat PXE server doesn't. The joke's on me - I was the one who installed that PXE server ... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
