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Sorry for the delayed reply, been a bit busy :-( There's now some guidance
notes at:
www.willslab.co.uk/open.html
Happy for any feedback on this page if anyone feels like doing so.
Hope to see some of you at the Plymouth LUG on Saturday, noon, Hush
Coffee.
All the best
Andy
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 12:45:35PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> Classic HowTo territory?
>
> 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:
> >A A On 29 Oct 2016 15:01, "Andy Wills" <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >A A >
> >A A > Although I knew a couple of people at Plymouth University who
> had got
> >A A > Linux onto their standard work-issue PCs ('PLYMDESK'), they'd
> done
> >A A > this without knowledge of the university's IT services. This
> had
> >A A > required some ingenuity, as these machines general don't boot
> from DVD
> >A A > or USB, and the BIOS is password protected. If you ask for the
> >A A > password, you're usually told you can't have it (I was).
> >A A >
> >A A > So... I thought I'd see if I could get Linux onto my work
> machine with
> >A A > the full knowledge of IT services, through their official
> support
> >A A > systems. Long story short... I could! An IT guy came and
> changed the
> >A A > boot order so the machine would boot from the DVD drive. I then
> >A A > installed Ubuntu 16.04 (with dual boot to Windows 7) on the
> machine
> >A A > myself with no difficulties.
> >A A >
> >A A > Plymouth University don't provide tech support for Linux as a
> desktop
> >A A > environment (only for Windows 7, plus OS X for a minority of
> use
> >A A > cases), so I'm on my own in that regard, but that's OK. It
> still feels
> >A A > like an important milestone for increased acceptance of open
> computing
> >A A > at the University.
> >A A >
> >A A > All the best
> >A A >
> >A A > Andy
> >
> >A A Please tell me you have the whole process documented so others
> can follow
> >A A in your footstep if they wish.
> >
> >A A Congratulations on getting it done through official channels -
> not always
> >A A the easiest of routes.
> >
> >A A Grant. :)
>
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