[Sheflug] Toshiba laptops - any experience?

[Robert E B Holland BEng CEng FIEE <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My wife is considering buying a used Toshiba 320CDT laptop. It seems OK, & 
comes preinstalled with WIN98 & MS Office (which she needs because she 
teaches it!). However, there are no disks with the laptop. Does anyone know 
whether a standard version of Win98 will reinstall on this in the event of 
losing the hard disk? (The reason I ask is my Compaq laptop refused to load a 
standard Windows distribution & I had to use the Compaq reset-to-factory disk 
supplied.)

I managed to get the Compaq dual booting some time ago & would like to do the 
same with the Toshiba (so that my wife can learn Linux & demo it to the Tech 
College!) - again, anyone know of any difficulties here?

Regards

Bob Holland
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