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Re: New laptop

__/ [ wei hung lo ] on Saturday 01 July 2006 13:16 \__

> 
> Roy Culley wrote:
>> I've recently received a new company laptop (a Dell Precision M65).
>> So first thing I want to do is zap windows and install Gentoo. I
>> insert the Gentoo LiveCD and power on. What happens? System boots
>> windows.
>>
>> So I power off and on and go into the BIOS setup. The laptop was
>> configured to boot from 4 devices: floppy, disk, usb and CD. Guess
>> which one was last? Yup, CD.
>>
>> This is the first system I have come across where by default the
>> internal disk is before the CD in the boot sequence. Why have Dell
>> done this? To stop people trying LiveCD's perhaps?
> 
> 
> Why anybody care about trying livecd? You silly and paranoid. This is
> default configuration for many laptop device. All this cola and anti-MS
> bashing has made you sick in head. Go to real world and stop crying
> about problem that not exist. You only imagine this problem in stupid
> head of yours.

Eat sh*t and die, Gary (flatfish in another disguise).

>> --
>> "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as
>> false, and by rulers as useful." -- Seneca the Younger (4? BC - 65 AD)

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