On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Joseph Reisinger wrote:
> Hey, I've been playing around with linux for prolly a year now, and I've
> decided to install linux on my laptop (Sony sr5k). Only problem is, I dont
> have a cd-rom drive (or floppy drive for that matter) for it. Basically,
> being the cheap guy I am, I'd like to borrow someone's pcmcia cd-rom drive so I
> can get Debian on it.
Man ! I should start renting out my old PCMCIA Panasonic 4x... If I wasn't
in N. Carolina, I'd loan it to you.
Seriously, it's as easy and usually faster to install across a network,
via FTP, NFS, or HTTP, than with a slow old pcmcia CDROM. Plus, most
everybody with a laptop has an ethernet card ;^)
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Doc Shipley
Linux Stuff
Austin, Earth
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