[Gllug] Home desktop PC rebuild with Linux?

[Henry Gilbert]

On 11/24/05, John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 19:06 +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> > You havn't lived 'til you've fiddled with someone else's BIOS settings,
> > 1000 miles from home,  and discovered the bloody thing won't boot at all, hehe!
> > Small amount of sweat ensued, lol
> > Removal of the cmos battery cured that one fortunately!!
>
> Tim, you're right on there.
>
> Our new friend Henry has a lot to learn.
>

One is always keen to learn.
Glad I had the opportunity to have this walkthrough when I first
attempted salvaging that neighbours machine:
http://www.linuxpowered.com/archive/installguides/debian/install2.1/ch-preparing.en.html

But again not my machine, I wouldn't try something radical like
flashing the BIOS.
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