Luckily my friend bought the compusa warrenty so the sales guy told home he could microwave the thing if he wanted to and they would pretty much support it, so he returned the compaq and bought a toshiba....bad idea to give your money to someone who tells you that you cant do what ever you want with what you spend your money on IMHO dan -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Olwe Melwasul Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:58 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Linux on Laptop This has been going on for many years, even in the Windows world. Back in 1995, Microsoft's size and muscle was very much necessary to get Win 95 on the ground, as it had all kinds of install issues compared to Win 3.11. I worked for a university that wanted to upgrade and the main hardware contractor wouldn't go along or cooperate, wanting to void all the warranties on the machines it had sold us. Totally perposterous, since they would eventually have to switch to Win95 anyway. Similarly, I was tech support at Microsoft pre-Win95 and we'd typically rip out all non-Microsoft software on a caller's machine to make sure the Microsoft software in question wasn't somehow in conflict with it. Effectively, we were saying Windows only works for Microsoft products. LOL! Olwe Lansing, Dan wrote: >One thing to keep in mind on this, I had a friend who purchased a >compaq laptop from compusa and when he called compaq for support, they >found out he wanted to repartition and install linux, they told him >that if he removed the preinstalled OS or modified the partitions in >anyway it would void his warrenty with compaq. Just an FYI >Dan > > >-----Original Message----- >From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Olwe Melwasul >Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:56 PM >To: TCLUG Mailing List >Subject: [TCLUG] Linux on Laptop > > >I have a new Compaq Presario 2100 laptop and I'd like to put Fedora 2 >on > >it, maybe blow HomeXP totally off it. I got it at Best Buy and tried to >ask them about putting Linux on it. They punted, but mentioned how there > >might be a problem since maybe the BIOS was actually mixed in somehow >with the XP installation--but they weren't sure. In other words, put it >on at your own risk. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of >issue? > >Olwe > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list