On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:
> For instance -- right now I'm looking to put together a portable packet > radio system, so I want an old laptop that has a serial port. I happen to > have one -- it's a complete piece of junk, but it'll run Linux /and/ won't > be something that has any other useful purpose, so I won't care if it gets > broken or stolen. > > In similar situations (where I had a machine I wanted to use for a specialized purpose, but due to bad CDROM, etc), I would install to the HDD using another laptop, then swap the drive into the machine I was trying to set up. Far easier to do that type of trick with Linux than it is with Windows <g>.
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