Bristol Digest, Vol 556, Issue 11

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Today's Topics:

1. The Advent laptop (d.hockin)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:22:20 +0100
From: "d.hockin" <d.hockin@btinternet.com>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] The Advent laptop
Message-ID: <6B2FF231206749E1870EAD009F402AAA@DAVE3>
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Chris! Good news!!!

There just wasn't enough power left to run the disk drive and the pc!
That's why it was beeping and shutting down so fast :)

Luckily too, the disk left inside there, when I fired the pc up, was the
boot recovery one, and Suse got under way. I swapped it for the LXF one, and
it went well until Firefox crashed!

So I'm back on XP for this email, and I'll take a look shortly at the BIOS
via f2 to see if its still expecting your memory stick, and then let it do
all the umpteen updates and downloads that expect are waiting in the
wings....

Keeping my fingers crossed that it will work - but a least Grub fired up OK,
and its 3 choices - Suse, XP and I forget what was the 3rd(!) - certainly
fired up Suse and XP.

Many thanks for you considerable efforts. I had to leave KT as I'd lost all
trace of hearing in the high noise level, and that guy opposite had taken
over Dave, so he wasn't going to be of any help to us there and then.

Best wishes,

Dave.
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