Le 27 Ao??t 2003 17:30, Ian Goldberg a ??crit :

The new Dell laptop just arrived by Purolator. I've got the Debian install CD at the ready, but before I do anything, does anyone have (local, or at least Canadian) experience with trying to get a Windows refund from a manufacturer?

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?

Hi Ian, I have a Dell Inspiron 2500 about 2 years old now. I read that if you want a refund you must NOT open the plastic of the holy Windows software and not run the stuff. (I'm not sure though, it's old story, and no I did not take care of all that at the time, and I considered it lost for me). The EULA comes in the disk, the first time you run your laptop you are shown a bunch of screens. Win comes in DELL CD. The problem I had is to run my win2000 inside vmware. I complained about DELL because I could not install my windows (I paid for) in vmware, their Dell-M$-OEM software detects that the BIOS is not the same and refuses to install... No response from Dell until now (after 2 years). My advise now: read success stories, do your best, and keep us posted! Good luck, Marc -- 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