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Darwin

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Booting linux
« on: March 21, 2003 02:57 pm CST »
I am at my school at the moment, and I brought my linux disk that boots right off of the CD.  Well, I popped in the CD and restarted the computer and pressed F8 to enter the BIOS, but I see no option to select the boot order.

I just wanna run linux on this so I can freak my comp teacher out.

Anyway, this comp runs win2000 professional, and I'm wondering if that would have anything to do with it.
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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2003 03:27 pm CST »
Wow, I'm surprised those idiots at your school didn't password-protect the Bioses.  Tell me who manufactures the Bios and also what brand the computer is and maybe more in-depth things like who makes the motherboard, what kind of cpu, etc. Then I can help.
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Gotta love SBC with their 6Mbps tier for 45$
(Yes, on their site it only shows 3Mbps, but it is actually 6Mbps, I would know :)).

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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2003 09:28 pm CST »
I believe you can only get the boot menu with the boot disk in win2k... For that reason.
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2003 10:26 pm CST »
It's almost a definate that it's in your bios somewhere.
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2003 12:00 am CST »
Nah UG, bios, and bios alone has the ability to determine what the PC will boot from.  Windoze won't have a say when the hard drive isn't even able to be accessed because the Bios would have tried the cd-rom first.
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Gotta love SBC with their 6Mbps tier for 45$
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2003 12:30 am CST »
Unless it is an xbox.  Then you need a mod chip...

Its the weekend, and Im at home now.  All I remember is that they are Dell Optiplex's or something, the make they used to make before they switched to that black-case look.
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2003 01:29 am CST »
the bios select should be f1 - f3 at boot, but it all depends on the pc, and some bios are lock out capable and only accessable through the central or adminstrators pc.
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2003 09:09 am CST »
If it's passworded just clear it.
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« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2003 12:46 pm CST »
just put phat linux on the hd then u can start ir from windows or whatever else your using
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« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2003 07:24 pm CST »
*cough* school computer *cough*

Anyway, I dont think the bios is password locked, since I was able to get into it with one of the F1-F12 keys...

The only problem is I couldnt find a way to select it to boot from CD Rom before it boots from HDD.
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