[conspire] (forw) Re: guest

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:14:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dee <marinawindharp at yahoo.com>
To: installers at linuxmafia.com
Subject: guest


I hope to go to the March 28 meeting for the installfest.  I have had a
terrible time trying to put Puppy linux on my windoes 98 laptop machine.
I can't get into CMOS to start the boot from a CD.  I tried to erase the
windows password by removing the clock battery and reinitializing the
system  but I am completely locked out of CMOS.

Please help!  I will arrive with no CDs as my friend left the Puppy
linux CD at his house in San Diego.  I want to give this laptop to my
friend as Windows as proved to be very slow on the machine and it
doesn't have enough memory to run a fat firewall/virus protector like
McAfee. 

My name is Dee Christensen and my tel is [RM: redacted]. I will be
driving from SF and sort of tired (I work a 7pm to 3:30 am shift until
Sat. morning).


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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:28:43 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: Dee <marinawindharp at yahoo.com>
Cc: installers at linuxmafia.com
Subject: Re: guest

Quoting Dee (marinawindharp at yahoo.com):

> I hope to go to the March 28 meeting for the installfest.  I have had
> a terrible time trying to put Puppy linux on my windoes 98 laptop
> machine.  I can't get into CMOS to start the boot from a CD.  I tried
> to erase the windows password by removing the clock battery and
> reinitializing the system  but I am completely locked out of CMOS.
> 
> Please help!  I will arrive with no CDs as my friend left the Puppy
> linux CD at his house in San Diego.  I want to give this laptop to my
> friend as Windows as proved to be very slow on the machine and it
> doesn't have enough memory to run a fat firewall/virus protector like
> McAfee. 
> 
> My name is Dee Christensen and my tel is [RM: redacted]. I will be
> driving from SF and sort of tired (I work a 7pm to 3:30 am shift until
> Sat. morning).

Hi, Dee!

Sorry to hear about your problems.  Being locked out of the BIOS Setup 
program is indeed frustrating, and a major problem.  Below, you will
find the text of an online article giving advice on the problem.  I am
not including the live hyperlinks within the article, so, if you need
those, you'll need to follow the link "BIOS Passwords" on
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware/, to get to the article.

I do keep around a current copy of Puppy Linux on CD.  However, once we
have your BIOS Setup problem solved (which really _is_ necessary), you 
should consider whether a better Linux might not more fully meet your
needs.  E.g., even a Pentium MMX 133 with 128 MB RAM and a 2.1GB HD can
run full-blown Debian, Slackware or the antiX variant of SimplyMEPIS.
You just have to be careful how much you install to HD, and avoid
running RAM-hungry software.

If you will write back telling us the laptop make/model and amount of
total RAM, we can better advise you.

Here's the article:


How to Bypass BIOS Passwords
LabMice.net
04.21.2005

[RM: article snipped from this mailing list post]

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