From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: booting from CD, shortcuts anyone?
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:13:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0A6A5B8FD5764D8FB8FB7EF748F9658D@tdsdev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319190321.GA21829@cq.ftml.net>
USB tricks would be cool, if someone wouldn't mind throwing them in.
I have a laptop that isn't exactly screenless, but the screen dangles by a
couple wires. I've left it on so the keyboard doesn't fall off.
IN short, it's a great laptop (processor, ram, hd), but it would be better
with linux. :)
I'd like to get software speech with speakup on it, so I can play around and
learn the system beyond what I can do with ssh.
I'd really like to make linux my stable platform that I do all, if not most
of my work on.
Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:03 PM
Subject: booting from CD, shortcuts anyone?
> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping somebody might know some real cool tricks for booting a
> laptop from a CD when the BIOS is not set properly.
>
> I have a screenless laptop from GW-Micro with Windows installed on it,
> and want to replace the OS with Linux. It's not convenient to get
> sighted help here to reset the BIOS to allow the CD to take access over
> the HD, and I bet I am not the first blind guy to have to face this
> problem. I don't know the Windows version, and don't know which keys
> might interrupt the boot sequence. Any magic tricks someone might share
> would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise I guess I'll just have to wait
> for the cavalry.
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck
>
> --
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>
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