[CVALE] Old laptop / Installfest Reminder

[Eric Olinger]

jon wrote:
> I've tried, however- there is no cd drive (duh- old OLD machine) and my
> one and only pc(mcia) ethernet card won't fit in the machines slot.
I've done installs on my wife's laptop w/o a cd-rom drive. I used 
Slackware's boot disks to boot and load a driver for a pcmcia nic. From 
there you can load Slackware or jump start almost any distro. Hers was a 
little faster so I loaded Gentoo. You probably want to stick to 
something like Slackware, Debian or a stripped down RedHat. They all 
should be able to be loaded via floppy or floppy/network.

> So I would like to bring it to the installfest and have brighter brains
> than mine look at it to see if it is possible to install some flavor of
> the OS on it.  Currently it is Windows 3.11 and she would like something
> more robust.
 >
> When is the next installfest?  Sat the 22nd? or have I missed it for the
> month?
Hehe, um, yes the installfest is on the 22nd. The websites up to date 
now too :) Unless Kristian speaks up and says we cant it should be on.


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