Another option is to go driveless and boot the laptop over the network for them young ones. It would also be nice technological experiment to show them as well. It's definitely more satisfying than plopping in a new drive and installing a run-of-the-mill x86 OS. If you need any good pointers, guides, or anything in this regard, let me know. I've set-up a couple PXE Boot environments, including one which can boot into a remote X Windows desktop via XDMCP. :D
Here's a few YouTube videos I made to demonstrate this using a Virtual Machine(I also did PXE from an ARM SheevaPlug back when I has full HDD encryption enabled). XDMCP Thin X Server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu-bXla5ReI X Thin Client over NFS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs6lgvQNkIk There's no audio in this videos btw. On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:06:31 -0600 Roswyne <[email protected]> wrote: > I was talking to a guy from kijiji who said he had a few small ones > suitable for setting up a Linux system. > > If that's of interest, let me know and I'll look up his info. It didn't > suit my needs, so I didn't follow up. > > A friend also pointed out some new 80gig drives he saw online for $70, if a > larger driver would be better (or you want better reliability). > On Feb 10, 2014 11:14 PM, "R Rodd" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a laptop that hasn't been used in 5-6 years since it failed to boot > > one day. Tonight I took the drive out, hooked it up to an IDE->USB > > adapter, and have determined that the drive is faulty as suspected (yes, my > > to-do list of chores around the house is that long .. and longer). > > > > As the kids are getting to the age where having a homework and edutainment > > system would be useful I would like to find a drive for it. I'm certainly > > not picky about speed or storage size for this system. If someone has such > > a drive (2.5" IDE) resting in a drawer in their home-office or workshop the > > kids and I would be grateful for an organ transplant. > > > > With thanks, > > - Richard > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > -- Kevin <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
