new RedHat user with a question

[Sean McMahon]

I believe the debian installation manual has the keys to enter different bios
setups posted.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: new RedHat user with a question


> You might try holding F8 or one of the higher numbered F keys and see if you
> get an option to boot to the CD-ROM drive.
> You could hold down F8 and if you hear the CD drive spin up, arrow down
> about 4 or 5 times and hit enter.
> Glenn.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nick Van Vlaenderen" <nick.vanvlaenderen at pandora.be>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:17 PM
> Subject: Re: new RedHat user with a question
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Indeed, probably you need to change the boot device in your BIOS...
>
> Nick
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen Clower" <steve at steve-audio.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 12:52 AM
> Subject: new RedHat user with a question
>
>
> Hi folks,
>   I am taking the big plunge and am working on getting the latest version of
> RedHat installed on my laptop. I have downloaded the three Shrike iso images
> and have burned each image to a CDR. When I boot up my laptop with CD 1 in
> the CD-ROM drive, the CD spins up, but as far as I can ascertain the Linux
> boot screen does not appear. Instead, my computer boots right up into
> Windows. My guess is that the BIOS needs to be set, but I'm not entirely
> certain if this is the case. If anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate
> them.
> My apologies if this has been brought up on this list before. If this is the
> case, feel free to reply to me privately.
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> Stephen Clower, that guy from the south.
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