[OmniBook] Omnibook 6000, need Recovery CD

[Matt Taggart]

Marcelo Gomes writes...

> I win a second hand, Omnibook 6000 with some upgrade;
> 
> - P3 mobile 1Ghz FSB 100
> - 512MB PC100 of RAM (2x 256MB)
> - HDD 40GB 5400rpm

Pretty nice system.

> On google search I found this great list, but could found any recovery CD of 
> this model.
> Someone help me about?

http://ubuntu.com  :)

Seriously the ACPI/APM support in Ubuntu for the ob6000 is really nice, all 
the hardware features work well. APM works well in Debian "sarge" and I 
believe ubuntu's ACPI fixes will be in Debian's "etch" release as well.

As for a Windows Recovery CD, most vendors stopped doing those, I suspect 
Microsoft pressured them to do so because they didn't like the fact that 
people could use them as a way to install Windows on other machines. I 
can't remember if the ob6000 came with one or not, but even if it did I 
suspect there's no official way to get a replacement one now. That's what 
you get for using Windows I guess... :(

There are people on this list that are good at helping with any Linux 
issues you might have on the ob6000 (this is a Linux list after all).

Good luck,

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Matt Taggart        Open Source & Linux Organization R&D
taggart at fc.hp.com   Hewlett-Packard