RE: [Sheflug] Toshiba laptops - any experience?

[Steve Porter <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hiya,

we have 4 Toshiba Terca's here and you can do a clean install without a
'build' disk.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert E B Holland BEng CEng FIEE 
> [mailto:bobholland [at] bradwell.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 3:06 PM
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: [Sheflug] Toshiba laptops - any experience?
> 
> 
> 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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