On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

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I notice I can't even see the EULA anywhere in the box; I suspect it's likely to be in the shrinkwrapped Windows XP Home pamphlet. [Though there's no notice (at least on the outside) of the form "removing shrinkwrap implies agreement".]

I certainly don't intend to turn the machine on without it booting straight into Linux. Any other hints?

Simplest is to just let it blow up windows and forget it ever existed, when you boot Linux.

Just my guess on things.

Len

IANAL but: You may wish to do a *floppy* install (redhat?/debian/slackware) so as to guard your rights if you choose to pursue legal action. See Prof Lejour's post and the linuxjournal article referred to by Matt. OTOH, return to sender and purchase a used machine is always an option. 8) max. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml