booting from CD, shortcuts anyone?

[Tyler Littlefield]

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 at tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at 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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