booting from CD, shortcuts anyone?

[Gregory Nowak]

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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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