On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:32:41PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Tue 17 May 05, 3:22 PM, Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Let's suppose you have a set of Linux CD's (in this case, SuSE Enterprise > > 9). > > The computer already has SuSE 8.2 installed. The user cannot get into the > > BIOS to change the boot sequence (I don't know why, and she doesn't know > > enough about the BIOS to tell me). Is there a way to start a fresh install > > from within Linux? Seems like it should be possible. > > All you need to do to install Linux is to boot off Linux install medium. > What OS is on the hard drive is inconsequential. You don't install Linux > from "within" Linux; you just boot a Linux install disk/floppy. That said, > I'm sure there are fancy-pants way of installing Linux. But that would be > needless complicated.
Oh son-of-a... That'll teach me to read too quickly. I read the above and somehow parsed it as: "The machine has windows and can't boot of CD, is there a way to install Linux?" Ugh. Sorry >:^P <snip> > That said, if what happened is that she changed the "factory default" > settinga and wants to set it back, then she can drain CMOS to reset back to > the default setting. Yeah, often motherboards include a jumper that allows this to be done 'quickly' (a few seconds, rather than minutes). -bill! PS - There are also some interesting "chroot" install tricks that MIGHT be useful in this case. Found via Rick's LinuxMafia page, not surprisingly: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html#chroot _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
