[CoLoCo] Live cd on Lenovo T61 Thinkpad

[Chomafin]

I agree with Paul,
It sounds like your IT group has set up a bios password to stop you from
playing with your boot order and what not. When you are starting up the pc
with the live disk in, does it ever give you an option to boot from media?
I use a  T60 at work, so I can check tomorrow if you've not figured it out.
I seem to recall having to hit F2 or something during boot to load from CD.

On Jan 29, 2008 5:11 PM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That's probably something put in by your IT admin when they set the
> machine up for you. Keeps ordinary users [human beings] from messing with
> the machine config.
>
> Paul
>
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> From: Richard Guenther <heistooheavy at yahoo.com>
> To: ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:48:47 PM
> Subject: [CoLoCo] Live cd on Lenovo T61 Thinkpad
>
> Hi all,
>
> Our school district's tech department now has a policy of not supporting
> any of our hardware except for Dells.  Not sure what they mean by "support",
> but I have quasi-official permission from our administrator to install
> Ubuntu on the Lenovo T61 Thinkpad that I use with my programming club.  I
> already run 100% Ubuntu on my personal laptop and would like to do the same
> on the Thinkpad, which is used in my math classes and for programming.
>
> I'm no computer expert, but since Ubuntu is for human beings I'm pretty
> sure I qualify :-).  Anyway, I can't figure out how to boot to the live cd.
> I try to go into the bios on start-up, but it then accepts my fingerprint
> and then wants an additional password.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Richard
>
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