[H-GEN] debian on laptop
Steven_Shaw at adc.com
Steven_Shaw at adc.com
Thu Jul 4 23:57:23 EDT 2002
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>On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Mark Suter wrote:
>> I'd be happy to help. A great start would be to download and
>> burn one of the following CD images. These aren't "official;"
>> however, I've used them several time over the last few weeks to
>> do Debian GNU/Linux installs without any problems.
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
Thanks, Mark.
>
>I just burnt the latest copy from http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/
>and will have it at the meeting, if its of any use.
That's great thanks. My internet connection is only 32.2k :-)
>The other question would be, what type of laptop? Some of them can be
>a little tricky to get going.
It's a dell inpiron 8000.
In the past I've tried installing mandrake 8.0 and progeny 1.0 but failed to get
either working.
I also tried vmware under windows xp home but that was broke too...
I'm really missing linux!
cheers,
Steve.
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