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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:51:02 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:49:01 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
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>> I should be very interested to know whether an initial boot from the
>> hard drive gives you the option to refuse the Vista licence (and
>> reclaim some of its cost from Lenovo) as you apparently can with some
>> other new PCs.
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> I'll see what it does just before I boot from the F9 DVD. If there's any
> option to get a refund on the M$ tax I'll take it.
>
Following up:
Got the machine today and booted into Vista first. Badly designed initial
dialogue: if you hit Next without accepting either license ('doze and
hardware) it tells you that you can't install without acceptance, that
Lenovo MIGHT offer a refund on Vista and doesn't give any way to reboot,
that I could find anyway, without completing the Vista install. Once that
was done I could force a reboot into the F9 installer by shutting Vista
down.
Sneaky swine.
Once past that I only found one installer bug: after testing the DVD
all attempts to carry on with the install just got the single word 'Error'.
It was easily fixed with a reboot, but was still a surprising irritation.
After that the install was smooth.
I've since found a couple more snags:
- with SELinux enabled the Network Configuration tool and the taskbar
applet seemed to fight and I was unable to configure or enable ETH0.
Disabling SELinux fixed that.
- The default AC power management settings cause a warning that closing
the lid won't stop the machine and it may fry itself.
It doesn't matter whether I set the AC lid closed action to Suspend or
Hibernate - the effect is the same - the machine beeps three times and
fails to shut down, though the screen does lock.
Has anybody else seen this? If so, has it been bugged?
By the time I found this I'd run a yum update, so this applies to a
fully updated copy of F9. I haven't yet installed anything nonstandard,
e.g. my own stuff and Sun's Java, or switched from sendmail to Postfix.
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