Re: [LUG] Exeter College

["David Batho" <dbatho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Linux course at Exeter College, is a RH9 dual booting with Windows 2000.

The course starts if I'm correct on 17th September 2003

David
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From: "Simon Waters" <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] Exeter College


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> Richard.Fuller1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I'm a "lurker" on this group and would like to inform anyone who is at
> > all interested that I've enrolled and paid my fee for the Beginners
> > Linux course at Exeter College.
>
> Please do discuss DCLUG with the tutor, if they aren't also lurking
quietly.
>
> > the computer refuses to reboot from a cd
> > drive ( yes I know enough to try to sort that out in the bios )
>
> There are only so many things to try here.
>
> Redhat CD have bootable floppy images on you can rawrite (or dd) to
> floppy disk to get started. You then boot from floppy and the floppy has
> a suitable CD ROM driver compiled into its kernel.
>
> I know I was dead impressed when working with a really ancient PC with a
> realy bizarre Creative CD player, only to find documentation and a
> suitable floppy image within a few seconds.
>
> That said if a computer built since 1998 won't boot from CD when the
> BIOS settings are right, it probably has hardware problems. Is the BIOS
> update actually taking? i.e. set boot from CDROM in BIOS, save, switch
> off, wait 5 seconds, switch on, check BIOS settings to see it is still
> boot from CDROM.
>
> How far does it get?
>
> > hence
> > my problem trying to re-install Red Hat........hopefully the course
> > will help iron out a few of my problems ........??
>
> Probably, and a later Redhat woud probably help, I mean 6 was good, but
> it is ancient history.
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