On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:32, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > 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.
Well, the problem is that there is no way to boot from the install medium. As I mentioned, the computer is set to boot from the hard drive, and she can't get into the BIOS to change that. > However, if the ultimate goal is to change the boot sequence, installing > Linux won't help at all. �Linux has nothing to do with setting BIOS config > options. That's not the ultimate goal. As I mentioned, the ultimate goal is to install Linux. Unfortunately, since she can't get into the BIOS to change the boot sequence, she can't boot from the install media. I know you can't change that in Linux; I'm pretty sure my original message was clear on that. > If she really wants to change the boot options, she'll have to get into > BIOS. As I mentioned above, she can't. I don't know why. Which is why I was looking for a way to install Linux which didn't involve booting from the install medium. > 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. I think that the idea of opening up the case and messing with the innards scares her. ;-) -- Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com
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