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From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
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 12:35:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090319193542.GA23210@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319190321.GA21829@cq.ftml.net>

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Check out sbm, smart boot manager, it should do what you want,
assuming you can hook up a usb floppy drive to the machine, and boot
from it.
I don't see mention of a home page in the package description, but
apt-get install sbm should drag it in for you on a debian system. It
does say in the package description that it can boot from multiple
kinds of media, so maybe you can use a thumb drive, I've only tried it
from a floppy though.

As for the laptop you're describing, I'd guess it's probably the
smalltalk ultra, and they come with xp home installed as far as I
know. Hth.

Greg


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:03:21PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> 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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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Chuck Hallenbeck
 ` Tyler Littlefield
 ` Alastair Irving
   ` Chuck Hallenbeck
   ` Tony Baechler
 ` Gregory Nowak [this message]
   ` Chuck Hallenbeck
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Chuck Hallenbeck

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