[plug] newbie query

[Kimberly Shelt]

Woohoo.. funny thing.. I just trashed my lappy harddrive,
Indy is presently trying to garner the data from it..
fingers crossed.. so here I am coming to you via knoppix CD :)

I have an IBMThinkpad T22.. From windows boot screen there are
two options.. F1 BIOS.. (don't need to go there)..
	      F12 Load alternate boot devices
Either hit F12 or wait.. as I did initially..
As my HD is out of this machine, I get a nice red screen that says
no Operating System found.. kinda comforting I guess :)

Either way you get to a screen where all other devices are options..
tab down to CD hit enter :)

Then it is pretty much plain sailing from there.. the machine boots
get to the prompt knoppix# hit enter X starts and KDE launches..

Obviously there is messing about with ifconfig to get online.. 
but all in all I was pretty surprised how very easy it was.. 

The Big K in the left hand corner is more or less like the M$
start button, you will find lots of things in there :)

The funny world thing with the cog around it.. is the browser
the screen with the fan(if that is what it is) will launch a shell

Hope this helps
Kim


On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:14:49AM +0800, J and J Powell wrote:
> Okay, I've got my fully bootable Knoppix CD.
> 
> But... now I need to change my BIOS setup to boot from the CD-ROM first
> before the hard drive.
> 
> I have perused the windows help files (which never seem to help)
> So can anyone tell me how to do this please?
> 
> Thanks Janice
> 
> At 09:58 AM 8/8/2003 +0800, you wrote:
> >In message <20030808015736.GB3870 at guild.uwa.edu.au>
> >on Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:57:36AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> >> Hi Dennis,
> >
> >Or Denis, even!
> >
> >
> >