Re: About democracy was Re: Organizing for 6.2

["Jonathan Veit" <Jon347@flashmail.com>]

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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: About democracy was Re: Organizing for 6.2


> In a message dated 2/16/2000 10:25:03 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> Paul.Newman@pgen.com writes:
>
> << It doesnt need to install from windows. If the CD is bootable that is
> surely the
>  simplest thing there could be! Instructions: turn computer off, put cd in
cd
> rom
>  drive, turn computer on.  >>
>
>
> The problem with this statement is, what if the user's computer doesn't
have
> the BIOS set to boot off of the cd?  I know that the standard boot
sequence
> is A then C with an option to boot off the cd that you have to manually
set.
> Do we really want the user to screw around with BIOS settings?  I think
that
> we should have a Windows Autorun feature on the cd that allows the user to
> view the documentation which tells them that if the cd doesn't boot, to
make
> startup disks by clicking this button <insert button here :-) >      That
> would probably be the safest and easiest way to handle things.
>
 Your not including a boot disk with the distrubtion?