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the doOn Mon, 2001-12-17 at 08:12, bergman@merctech.com wrote:
> =3D> 3. IBM have not provided a rescue disk but have instead used a rescu=
e
> =3D> partition, which is the strangest idea I've ever heard. What if I n=
eed to
> =3D> rescue the machine because the disk crashed? As you can imagine, th=
is is a
> =3D> large partition (~750M) - does anyone know if it can be burnt onto a=
couple
> =3D> of CDs easily? Has anyone asked for rescue CDs from IBM?
> Yes. I bought an A22p, which also came with a rescue partition. I called =
IBM=20
> and asked for rescue CDs. They sent them, free, via express mail.=20
Excellent - I'll call them today then and save myself 1G of disk space
(500M of rescue partition + 500M of Win2K CD image for installing extra
software). Thats 1/10th of my disk! :(
> Of course, the CDs are still for recovery only--you cannot install window=
s=20
> (for use under Win4Lin or VMWare, for example).
I expected nothing else from Microsoft.
Thanks,
Ross
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