Re: [LUG] Open computing milestone at Plymouth University

On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, 09:27 Andy Wills, <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks, Grant :-) Yep, it definitely would have been quicker to
subvert the system, but my hope is that by doing it through official
channels the university gets a greater awareness of the presence of
Linux users.

The official process turned out to be pretty simple, the trick was
finding out what exactly to ask to whom. I'll put an account of how to
do it on my website in the next week or so.

Hope you are well ?

Best

Andy

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:38:44PM +0000, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
>Â Â On 29 Oct 2016 15:01, "Andy Wills" <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Â Â >
>Â Â > Although I knew a couple of people at Plymouth University who had got
>Â Â > Linux onto their standard work-issue PCs ('PLYMDESK'), they'd done
>Â Â > this without knowledge of the university's IT services. This had
>Â Â > required some ingenuity, as these machines general don't boot from DVD
>Â Â > or USB, and the BIOS is password protected. If you ask for the
>Â Â > password, you're usually told you can't have it (I was).
>Â Â >
>Â Â > So... I thought I'd see if I could get Linux onto my work machine with
>Â Â > the full knowledge of IT services, through their official support
>Â Â > systems. Long story short... I could! An IT guy came and changed the
>Â Â > boot order so the machine would boot from the DVD drive. I then
>Â Â > installed Ubuntu 16.04 (with dual boot to Windows 7) on the machine
>Â Â > myself with no difficulties.
>Â Â >
>Â Â > Plymouth University don't provide tech support for Linux as a desktop
>Â Â > environment (only for Windows 7, plus OS X for a minority of use
>Â Â > cases), so I'm on my own in that regard, but that's OK. It still feels
>Â Â > like an important milestone for increased acceptance of open computing
>Â Â > at the University.
>Â Â >
>Â Â > All the best
>Â Â >
>Â Â > Andy
>
>Â Â Please tell me you have the whole process documented so others can follow
>Â Â in your footstep if they wish.
>
>Â Â Congratulations on getting it done through official channels - not always
>Â Â the easiest of routes.
>
>Â Â Grant. :)

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