On 14/10/2010 08:54 πμ, Tom H wrote: > 2010/10/14 Γιώργος Πάλλας <gpall@ccf.auth.gr>: > >> On 14/10/2010 04:43 πμ, Tom H wrote: >> >>> >>> You can mess with the registry to make another set of recovery disks >>> if the first set is damaged or unduplicated >>> >> This is really unneeded. What I do on friend's laptops with >> pre-installed Win7 and no recovery disks (just a recovery partition) who >> want to install ubuntu or some other linux distro is this: I boot >> Clonezilla, I open a shell, I delete the recovery partition (using >> fdisk/cfdisk) and then I take a good compressed disk snapshot on an >> external usb disk. Then, install debian/ubuntu on the 10Gigs of the >> recovered space of the ex-recovery partition. >> > And when you sell the box to a Windows-only user, .. ... you also sell him support for when the bad time comes :-P
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