Re: making an accessible boot disk
Computer education in America is seriously deficient. As things stand my
friend had never opened a computer up before and nobody had showed him
what the parts were inside of one. This would be easier if he had that
background. On Fri, 31 May 2019, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 16:46:44
> From: Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com>
> To: Debian-Accessibility <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: making an accessible boot disk
> Resent-Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 20:46:58 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
>
> On 5/31/19, Frank Carmickle <frank@carmickle.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is why, where ever I can I buy systems that support out of band
> > management, in most cases, ipmi. This way you can choose to change the boot
> > order , boot from the network or disk, without going into the bios or if you
> > must get into the bios you can have someone do it remotely for you.. Here?s
> > to hoping that coreboot might help us someday too.
> >
> > HTH some time in the future
>
>
> Hi, Frank.. It helped me. It sounds like it might be less intimidating
> for newer Users of all kinds, too. I remember the first couple times I
> played around in BIOS. I was scared to death I was going to
> permanently kill it by accidentally clicking something just wrong.
>
> This is the first time I can remember ever hearing of it, and I've
> been using computers for a VERY long time. I'll be checking it out so
> I can speak of it on its own terms if and when the chance to share
> that information ever comes up again.
>
> This is all about INDEPENDENCE.. and fuller "I CAN DO IT!" INCLUSION
> when it comes to knowing about options like that. Thank you for
> sharing it. :)
>
> For a split second a few minutes ago, I had the "brilliant" thought to
> wonder if maybe a rescue disk could somehow come into play....
>
> And then I basically smacked my head because... the whole point is
> about trying to access a feature that you need to change first BEFORE
> you can... do something like boot first from a CD, DVD, or USB dealie
> before internal hard drives..
>
> Cindy :)
>
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