[nflug] get your money back

[Cyber Source]

Ken Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:06 -0500, John Nichel wrote:
>   
>> eric wrote:
>>     
>>> http://community.linux.com/community/07/01/03/227237.shtml?tid=12
>>>
>>>       
>> It's sad that you can't even get a system with *no* OS from many vendors.
>>
>>     
>
> FWIW...
>
> Often times being able to see the computer make it a certain portion of
> the way into a successful boot of the operating system is their final
> "health check".  If the machine can't find an OS to boot there could be
> non-functional hardware causing that.  Keep in mind people who work
> assembling computers typically aren't exactly Rocket Scientists and the
> companies need to come up with very explicit and simple instructions for
> the folks who handle that phase of things in most cases.  Having a no-OS
> procedure worked out, debugged, and taught to the assemblers/testers is
> only cost effective if more than one or two computers will wind up
> shipping that way...  :-)
>
>   
Good point but it wouldn't be that hard. So for every system that wants
to have no OS, goes down this assembly line where after they've done
their install for testing purposes or however they leave it just prior
to boxing the thing up, the system could be booted with a cd and one
line of dd to write zeros to the drive, done deal.

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