[CS-FSLUG] Adding a partition for Linux

[Jim Isbell, W5JAI]

Good call.  I hadnt thought of that.  I will check it out.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Andrew Minerd <andrew at dothedrew.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:43:27 -0500, "Jim Isbell, W5JAI"
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> <jim.isbell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I tried again to set it to boot from the CD and it will access BOTH
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>> CDs during the boot sequence and BOTH have a bootable CD in them and
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>> then it sits with an EMachines logo on the screed for a while, then
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>> again accesses BOTH cds and then boots from the HD.
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> It might be possible to disable the logo and see a bit more info. It'd be
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> in the BIOS options somewhere -- might be called "Quiet Boot"? That could
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> help in debugging the problem.
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> Sometimes, IIRC, the BIOS will still require you to, "press any key to boot
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> from CD" -- even when the CDROM drive is first in the boot order. Perhaps
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> the logo is obscuring that message.
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>>> - Tim Young
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>>> Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
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>>>> Its a T1110 that came pre-loaded with XP.
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>>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Tim Young <Tim.Young at lightsys.org>
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>>>>> What model of E-Machine do you have?
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>>>>> - Tim Young
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>>>>> Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
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>>>>>> Thanks, I will try that.  I can read the cds, just cant seem to boot
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>> from them.
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Jim Isbell
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you are just taking up too much space."