[Cialug] Venting, old hardware give-away

[Nathan C. Smith]

Ooh, Vectras were solid machines!  That what we used to use here for win95.
To bad the killed the line after the HP-Compaq merger.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: D. Joe Anderson [mailto:deejoe at raccoon.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:22 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Venting, old hardware give-away



On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:43:32AM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> Mandriva will give you a warning if it can't install a package, but 
> will
> continue on and finish the install / upgrade. Depending on what packages 
> they are... you may end up with a system that's not so usable when 
> you're done, so it's kind of a blessing / curse situation.

While we're gloating ;-) I'll just say this is what's nice about distros
that lean a little more towards supporting minimal installs.  The downside
is that you then have to piecemeal stuff onto the box sometimes (witness my
once-Ubuntu laptop that is now running Debian sarge, but without several
features that it had with Ubuntu).

> I've seen several systems where you can install with the media just 
> fine
> on one PC, but it has these kinds of errors on another, so trying a 
> different CDROM drive might be a good thing to try.

I'll jump on that bandwagon, too.  they don't seem to make CD-ROM drives
like they used to.  Maybe this is a good time and place to put in a plug for
my free-for-the-taking (mind you, I'm in Ames) HP Vectra pizza box style
systems, one with a 166MHz Pentium and one with a 200MHz Pentium, but both
with working CD-ROM drives, I think ;-)

-- 
D. Joe Anderson          http://www.etrumeus.com/~deejoe
". . . we could end up with a situation where it's legal to own hardware
that automatically fires bullets really fast but illegal to have software
that automatically fires bits really fast. -- Jenny Reiswig"
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