[Gllug] Getting Microsoft off a Dell purchase - anyone done this?

[John Hearns]

Chris Bell wrote:

>On Fri 07 Jul, Karanbir Singh wrote:
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>>Their main issue is that they cant ( or dont want to ) ship a machine
>>out without an OS.
>>
>>   Otherwise how can they run any initial tests on the hardware?
>>
Network boot via PXE and run in a minroot environment.
We do it in Linux, and I've seen it done with Solaris on Sun boxes.
We have a network bootable Knoppix if you want to do some detailed 
investigations.







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