[Gllug] "Wrong software" installed on to desktop PC's causes crash

[Jason Clifford]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, John Hearns wrote:

> > I don't know about Windows but on most platforms if you fubar the whole OS 
> > installation automated management tools aren't going to be of much help.
> 
> Jason, that's not really true.
> 
> Do a PXE boot, and do a complete re-install from the installation
> server.

Fair enough. For Linux and decent systems where the hardware/firmware has 
the capability an automated fix is possible.

Alas government departments don't use decent platforms hence they couldn't 
recover.

Jason Clifford
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