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Re: [LUG] neighbour support

 

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Adrian Midgley wrote:
| On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 18:38, Simon Waters wrote:
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|>Unlike car repair almost every OS install is a write-off, so you'd
|>basically be reinstalling almost every one to make a cost effective
|>business.
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| And while one is doing a complete operating system and application
| install, one might as well convert them to Linux, and then support
| that...

Installing Linux on unknown hardware is a mugs game professionally.

I mean it is fun, but the smart route is to reinstall the OS they had,
with the driver disks they had, and all the hardware will just work
(well at least you have a fighting chance of getting out inside a couple
of hours).
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