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Originally Posted by [527]phil
3. If your going to buy a laptop without an operating system ( The one I got didn't come with an operating system) Make sure you have a windows xp startup disk (from another computer you own, I used my uncles CD because he has a dell desktop.) because you will not be able to access the CD drive though DOS.
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Originally Posted by Matt Leese
Please don't just happen to have a Windows XP disc somewhere that you use to install it. Please have an actual legal license to install Windows XP on that computer. So if you don't have one, buy one. FIRST teams have in the past been threatened with legal action because of software piracy; there's no need for it to happen again.
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While that is a good warning for people to heed, note he said 'startup disk,' NOT 'install disk'