Windows tax (Re: [ltp] T40 / Pentium M and Linux)

Matthias Posseldt linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:00:05 +0200


On Saturday 29 March 2003 04:26, Ron Joffe wrote:
> 3. IBM will not send you a cd for windows XP. They will send you a recovery
> CD which only let's you completely reformat your system.

On my A30p there was Win2k Professional installed. On the disk was the i386 
subdirectory from a Windows 2000 CD, so that I copied all files to a CD and 
burned it as bootable CD with the help of a web site where the procedure was 
described in detail.

Ciao, Matthias

-- 
"If liberty means anything at all,
it means the right to tell people
what they do not want to hear."

George Orwell