On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:07:38PM -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: > The one I am dealing with is the G1 as in "Generation 1." It seems that > the HP site lists it interchangably either with or without the G1. > Anything G2 or over always has the G# specified. > > Is this a way to force enterpize hardware upgrades? Only support the OS > version that was relatively current when the hardware was released so that > upgraded software forces a new hardware purchase. Nice business model, I > guess, but it feels like a hardware upgrade treadmill for the customer. Well, G1 *is* getting pretty old, isn't it? BTW, I ran across some stuff talking about setting the OS type in BIOS or with SmartStart CD. Setting the OS to Linux will change the behavior a bit so that some things work. Don't know if that applies on G1, but it's worth a look see. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss