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On 29 Oct 2016 15:01, "Andy Wills" <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Although I knew a couple of people at Plymouth University who had got
> Linux onto their standard work-issue PCs ('PLYMDESK'), they'd done
> this without knowledge of the university's IT services. This had
> required some ingenuity, as these machines general don't boot from DVD
> or USB, and the BIOS is password protected. If you ask for the
> password, you're usually told you can't have it (I was).
>
> So... I thought I'd see if I could get Linux onto my work machine with
> the full knowledge of IT services, through their official support
> systems. Long story short... I could! An IT guy came and changed the
> boot order so the machine would boot from the DVD drive. I then
> installed Ubuntu 16.04 (with dual boot to Windows 7) on the machine
> myself with no difficulties.
>
> Plymouth University don't provide tech support for Linux as a desktop
> environment (only for Windows 7, plus OS X for a minority of use
> cases), so I'm on my own in that regard, but that's OK. It still feels
> like an important milestone for increased acceptance of open computing
> at the University.
>
> All the best
>
> Andy
Please tell me you have the whole process documented so others can follow in your footstep if they wish.
Congratulations on getting it done through official channels - not always the easiest of routes.
Grant. :)
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