[wellylug] Machines with OS pre-installed

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 08:52 +1200, John Durham wrote:
> I just went through a difficult situation with a customer who has  an 
> almost new Lenovo PC with Vista.
> 
> After a few weeks he noticed his Skype connection no longer worked. The 
> cause was internal breakdown of Vista files. Regrettably, his system 
> came without a system CD. He is facing the cost of buying one because of 
> the provider's unethical behavior.

Lenovo systems have a recovery partition on the system hard drive. 

For their laptops, you push the Thinkcenter key at boot up, and it will
take you into their recovery program that allows you to restore the
system.

Not sure about desktops - watch the BIOS messages at boot, there will be
some key combination to make it start.


> Then this morning I saw an article about Ubuntu here:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7358483.stm
> 
> My question is: How practical would it be to use Ubuntu in his case to 
> replace the system and restore Skype etc?

That depends entirely on what programs they want to run. You can get
skype for Linux, but do they require any other windows programs?


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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