Linux on Dell laptop?

[Cheryl Homiak]

You might want to do a google search and see if there's a way to change 
your bios boot temporarily. My thinkpad does this and i hear that quite a 
few laptops maybe do.
sorry I can't be more specific.
If you think your laptop might be pretty easy to reconfigure from the 
bios, you could try going to a laptop list or one for your Dell computer 
and asking about it. when the person helping me with my computer messed up 
my boot options, somebody on the thinkpad list sent me detailed 
step-by-step instructions for getting into the bios and changing boot. Of 
course, I had to do it a few times because I didn't know which boot option 
was at the top and I just kept having to do it until I'd tried all the 
options. When none of them got my cdrom working i surmised it was disabled 
and had to go down what I knew was the list and space to change the 
enable/disable switch on each one--then my cdrom was the only thing that 
worked and i could boot from hd but after that I was able to go and change 
options one at at time until my cdrom and hard drive both worked and cdrom 
boot was the preferred choice. it sounds a bit complicated but step by 
step it wasn't bad. You would just need somebody who knows the bios of 
that machine well and is good at directions. The temporary boot change 
would be simpler if it is available.
This may not be too helpful but it's the only idea i have at the moment.


-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."