"Peter Kai Jensen" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> amicus_curious wrote:
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>>> http://ubuntu-tutorials.blogspot.com/2007/01/install-ubuntukubuntuedubuntuxubuntu.html
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>> I am very curious to know how many "old" computers there are on the
>> planet with a minimum of 192Mb of RAM and a spare 700Mb of hard drive
>> space and an Ethernet connection to the internet but lacking a CD-ROM.
>> Before CDs came with just about everything, the HD was below 100Mb and
>> there was never a network card. Maybe a modem.
>>
>> This is a solution in search of a problem.
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> Well, I certainly found a problem for it recently. I was supposed to
> install yet another special-purpose install-and-forget Debian on an
> older Dell machine. Turns out that the CD-ROM drive was apparently
> fried and would not boot the installer (I could boot from floppy, but
> the drive would fail to read all of the CD properly). No problem, I
> thought, CD-ROM technology is standard, so I'll just go the help-desk
> and borrow one to plug into the machine temporarily. No such luck, as
> the innards appear to be very much proprietary. I did manage to
> eventually wire the CD-ROM drive to actually work and be detected, but
> no matter what I did, the CD-ROM would not work simultaneously with the
> hard disk (each worked fine when the other one was not set to be used in
> the BIOS). No amount of jumper-fiddling could fix it either, so I
> suspect a BIOS or MB problem.
>
> At this time I was running out of time and patience, so I ripped the
> hard disk out and found another machine to plug it in for the base
> install. That got me sufficiently up and running for doing a network
> install of the rest. Was also quite fast, since this was at Uni and we
> host a rather large Debian mirror ... :-)
>
>
I would wager that your name for the computer is "Old Reliable", eh?
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