OT: free USB floppy

2014-03-30 Thread Peter Dobratz
We are decluttering. I have a Lacie brand USB 3.5 inch floppy disk drive along with 27 3.5 inch disks. Free to good home. I'm in Derry, but travel frequently to Manchester and Nashua. Message me off-list if interested. --Peter ___ gnhlug-di

Re: GONE, tower case, floppy, cd, P/S

2007-05-23 Thread Ted Roche
Gone. Got an email from someone interested in it. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

FREE: tower case, floppy, cd, P/S

2007-05-22 Thread Ted Roche (Personal)
info. "Someone gave me a tower server case which I do not need or want. It has a power supply, floppy, cd and 4 speed cd burner. Case is in fine shape... The supply lists at 400W. Case states Super on the front, cannot easily find an model info. ATX size board, perhaps even extended size by the

Re: Floppy

2004-03-26 Thread Jon maddog Hall
Scott, I agree with your analysis, and I question anyone "trying out Linux" on something as old as a 386 unless their target machine for use IS that 386. On a modern machine with a modern distribution, Knoppix, a second disk drive, or even adding USB disks with a boot floppy are

Re: Floppy

2004-03-15 Thread Dan Jenkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, at 1:37pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got a friend who is interested in trying out Linux. Has an old 386 to play with which doesn't have a CD drive. Was wondering if anyone has an old version out there on floppies? Eeesh. I don't know if that's reall

Re: Floppy

2004-03-15 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 13:37, D. Mo wrote: > Hey there. I'm sure someone out there can help with this. > > Got a friend who is interested in trying out Linux. Has an old 386 to play > with which doesn't have a CD drive. Was wondering if anyone has an old > version out there on floppies? Well, i

Re: Floppy

2004-03-15 Thread bscott
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, at 1:37pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Got a friend who is interested in trying out Linux. Has an old 386 to > play with which doesn't have a CD drive. Was wondering if anyone has an > old version out there on floppies? Eeesh. I don't know if that's really a good way to tr

Re: Floppy

2004-03-14 Thread Scott C. Mellott
What about Knoppix on his 'real system' instead of the old system (this assumes he has another system)? Scott Jerry Feldman wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:37:45 -0500 "D. Mo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey there. I'm sure someone out there can help with this. Got a friend who is interested in

Re: Floppy

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:37:45 -0500 "D. Mo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there. I'm sure someone out there can help with this. > > Got a friend who is interested in trying out Linux. Has an old 386 to > play with which doesn't have a CD drive. Was wondering if anyone has > an old version ou

Re: Floppy

2004-03-14 Thread Dan Jenkins
but he doesn't really want to put a CD drive in. I still have the twelve floppy disks of Linux kernel source I used back in 1994 or 1995 to build Yggdrasil Linux. I wouldn't wish that on anyone nowadays. :-) I know there are various tiny Linux distributions aimed for routers, diagno

Floppy

2004-03-14 Thread D. Mo
Hey there. I'm sure someone out there can help with this. Got a friend who is interested in trying out Linux. Has an old 386 to play with which doesn't have a CD drive. Was wondering if anyone has an old version out there on floppies? I've severaal versions on CD but he doesn't really want to

Re: Did someone reload the internet from floppy last night?

2004-02-03 Thread bscott
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, at 11:23am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When others were getting connection refused, they were not even getting to > my computer. It was not my server or firewall. The question is this: Is > there a traceroute command that will tell me *where* along the way that > the connection

Re: Did someone reload the internet from floppy last night?

2004-02-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Steven W. Orr writes: > But what I'm trying > to figure out for the future still remains: If in the future, an outside > person tries to send me mail and gets connection refused, how can I run > something which will tell me where along the way the connection was > getting refused? You are probab

Re: Did someone reload the internet from floppy last night?

2004-02-03 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Tuesday, Feb 3rd 2004 at 13:51 -0500, quoth Kevin D. Clark: => =>Steven W. Orr writes: => =>> When others were getting connection refused, they were not even getting to =>> my computer. It was not my server or firewall. The question is this: Is =>> there a traceroute command that will tell me

Re: Did someone reload the internet from floppy last night?

2004-02-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Steven W. Orr writes: > When others were getting connection refused, they were not even getting to > my computer. It was not my server or firewall. The question is this: Is > there a traceroute command that will tell me *where* along the way that > the connection *was* getting refused. What d

Re: Did someone reload the internet from floppy last night?

2004-02-03 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Tuesday, Feb 3rd 2004 at 10:26 -0500, quoth Kevin D. Clark: => =>Steven W. Orr writes: => =>> Does anyone know what's going on? Guaranteed *something* is up. => =>It had something to do with the Illuminati Conspiracy. More I cannot =>tell. => =>> And a question. =>> =>> If a port 25 is getti

Re: Did someone reload the internet from floppy last night?

2004-02-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Steven W. Orr writes: > Does anyone know what's going on? Guaranteed *something* is up. It had something to do with the Illuminati Conspiracy. More I cannot tell. > And a question. > > If a port 25 is getting "Connection refused", how can I tell where the > refusal is happening? IOW, how do

Did someone reload the internet from floppy last night?

2004-02-03 Thread Steven W. Orr
Last night there were a lot of simultaneous things going on. * Routes to places were (and still are) *very* long. * My DNS was not responding via zoneedit.com * My incoming port 25 was blocked for 5 hours and all mail was getting connection refused. * Other peoples port 25 was not responding.

Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver

2002-09-29 Thread Tom Buskey
nto it, perhaps to run Apache or something. The problem is that >> he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it. I know that the IDE driver >> is built into the Linux kernel (or I think it is), but his is a SCSI >> model -- it's a Digital Celebris model, or something li

Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver

2002-09-28 Thread John Abreau
Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think he might. But I don't have a second box to use as the nfs > server (nor do I know how to do it if I had one). BLU is holding an Installfest on October 26. I've done plenty of nfs installs myself, so setting up a server won't be a problem. I'll h

Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver

2002-09-28 Thread Matthew J. Brodeur
w that the IDE driver > is built into the Linux kernel (or I think it is), but his is a SCSI > model -- it's a Digital Celebris model, or something like that. I *think* that Red Hat's standard boot floppy (boot.img) supports SCSI cards & CD-ROMs. You may need one of the su

Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver

2002-09-28 Thread Erik Price
On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 11:34 AM, John Abreau wrote: >> I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install >> Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something. The problem is >> that >> he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it. I know that the IDE driver > > Does

Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver

2002-09-28 Thread John Abreau
Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install > Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something. The problem is that > he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it. I know that the IDE driver Does he have a supported network card i

installing Linux by floppy to get driver

2002-09-28 Thread Erik Price
t's a Digital Celebris model, or something like that. Since he can't use the CD ROM drive, he can't install Linux by CD. We found a floppy-based distro called DLX (<http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html>), which I was thinking could get Linux up and running, b