Fwd: Babbage Net School (Chicago Tutoring Center) Laptop Deployment

John Watlington wad at laptop.org
Tue Mar 24 20:48:02 EDT 2009


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tony Mercer <tonymercer42069 at hotmail.com>
> Date: March 24, 2009 1:13:08 PM EDT
> To: <wad at laptop.org>
> Subject: RE: Babbage Net School (Chicago Tutoring Center) Laptop  
> Deployment
>
> It runs the Fedora program, and when i turn the power on it goes  
> through like a list, like checking everything, and says ok to  
> everything and then says
> ***An error occured during the file system check.
> ***Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> ***When you leave the shell
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D to continue):
>
> When i do that it goes back through the list and does it again.
>
>
>
>
>  EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD
> Join me
>
>
>
> > CC: wad at laptop.org; devel at lists.laptop.org
> > From: wad at laptop.org
> > Subject: Re: Babbage Net School (Chicago Tutoring Center) Laptop  
> Deployment
> > Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:44:42 -0400
> > To: tonymercer42069 at hotmail.com
> >
> >
> > A few quick questions:
> > - Do you know what is installed on the laptop ? (Sugar ? Fedora ?)
> >
> > - You say it won't startup all the way any more. Can you describe
> > when it stops ? (e.g. the screen lights up and the XO logo appears
> > with a single dot below, it stops after the third dot, etc.)
> >
> > - Can you boot it while holding down the "check" key on the right
> > hand side of the screen (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cheat_codes) ?
> > Let us know what it prints before stopping.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
> >
> > On Mar 21, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Tony Mercer wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, my name is Anthony Mercer and I am writing you to ask about my
> > > laptop. It will not start up all the way any more, and i have
> > > finished school and can not take it back to have it looked at. I
> > > would also like to know about how to take off the tutouring  
> program
> > > now that i have graduated from my school. Please write back to me
> > > at tonymercer42069 at hotmail.com .
> > >
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