Rescue-and-Recovery partition on new Thinkpad

[Daniel Wayne Armstrong]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Digimer <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 10-09-15 04:40 PM, Michael Lauzon wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 15:56, Lennart Sorensen
>> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> Warranty of the hardware can not be dependant on restoring to factory
>>> defaults.  If their techs need to restore to factory defaults to diagnose
>>> things, then they can do that themselves from their disks.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Len Sorensen
>>
>> You'd be surprised how a lot of laptop/netbook manufacturers would
>> refuse warranty if the original OS is not present.
>
> From personal experience, Lenovo doesn't require this. I sent mine back
> with Linux and they didn't bat an eye.

Thanks for the info!

I think when I receive the laptop I will first boot into a minimal
Windows setup, confirm things are working, make a DVD backup with an
external drive as mentioned, then wipe the drive and set up Debian the
way I like it.
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