Rescue-and-Recovery partition on new Thinkpad

Thu Sep 16 15:06:53 UTC 2010

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 08:19:03PM -0400, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> 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.

That's what I did with my Thinkpad.  Not sure what I did with the DVDs
after making them.  They are probably around somewhere, although vista
basic is not something I have any need to ever restore.

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Len Sorensen
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