Off topic, just have to vent!

[Alex Snow]

Probably Slackware.  Installation is gonna be fun since the cdrom for that
machine is a 2x external parrell port SCSI drive. Barely runs under windows.
And then one of the jumpers fell out and it won't autodetect during boot
anymore.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher at bigfoot.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic, just have to vent!


> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > The slowest notebook I have now is a toshiba 75 mhz with 800 megs of
hdd.
> > I'm thinking of putting linux on it.  Toshibas are good machines.  My
first
> > computer was a 386/8 mhz with 80 mb disk.
>
> Yeah, go for it, should be ok.  Which distro are you thinking of using?
> You'll have to be a little careful of what packages you include, or you
> could leave yourself with no hd space to work with.  But I know what you
> mean about Tosh machines, they are good.
>
> Cheers.
>
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