Re: Suse without BIOS access

From: seb (info-NOSPAM-_at_icilinux.com)
Date: 09/11/05 

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:06:23 +0200

Almaleh wrote:
> Hello,
> I haven't had an answer in the "debian-laptop" newsgroup. In fact, I'm a
> former user of Suse 7.3. I'd like to install the 9.3 pro (or the new
> version 10.0). In my Toshiba Satellite (laptop), I can't access to the
> bios (I don't know why Toshiba has cut this possibility).
> So, is it possible to install Suse my my computer ??
>
> thanks
> Francois
>
> nb : do you think OpenSuse 10 may be equivalent to 9.3 pro ??
>

Hi,

On my Toshiba Satellite 2100 Pro, I have to hit one of the direction
keys at the beginning of the boot process (I mean in the first 1-2
seconds) to be able to choose an other boot peripheral. From there I can
boot from CD/DVD, HD, network, etc... Maybe that's what you're looking
for? There's also a similar way to access the BIOS but I don't remember
exactly how (maybe holding F1 for a few seconds).
About your second question: I've been using 10.0 on this laptop since
beta 3; I had 9.3 Pro before. I'm not missing anything - with all the
on-line yaST repositories available, I've got all I need; I install Java
from the official repository on gwdg.de, MPlayer and Scribus from
Packman... And 10.0 is REALLY faster than 9.3 on this laptop. If I were
you, I'd wait for 10.0 final (even if RC1 seems to be working perfectly
for me, it can be dangerous to use it).

Seb.

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