[Bradford] A couple of small jobs

[John Robert Hudson]

Hi Mike

Normally you can go into the bios settings to unset UEFI and then install; a 
good distro will leave your /home untouched but for safety System Rescue will 
enable you to make a copy of your /home partition before you do this.

John

On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:10:17 GMT Devo Too via Bradford wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm snowed under and not finding time to get a couple of things out of
> the way. There is a small amount of money available to pay for the work,
> I'm hoping sufficient to cover it.
> 
> The first is for our two voluntary projects, which haven't got any money
> in yet but the three of us involved have put a bit in so we can do
> things like this to get started.
> 
> We need Exim configuring, along with Spamassassin and Dovecot (plus
> Amavis-new?) on a Bytemark VM.
> 
> The second is for me and I'll have to cough up personally. I've wiped
> out the root partition on the new laptop. On boot it asks me to reboot
> and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot
> device and press a key. Nothing happens with the latter) and the only
> boot optgion available is UEFI network stack. The USB and 'Doze Boot
> options have been deleted.
> 
> If you can do either, or at least point me in the right direction for
> the laptop problem (e.g. need somebody with a 'Doze10 USB 'cos no CD
> slot and there's no other way to do it), please respond here or on 07564
> 689577.
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> Mike
> 
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