[Lvlug] Recommendations on a More Suitable Distro

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Glen Hartzell <ghhartzell at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think an adapter which will allow you to install the laptop drive in 
> your desktop computer is only about $5.-  You could do the install from 
> another computer and possibly be able to boot your laptop with the new 
> installation

I've considered this, but as a last resort option.  Debian Sarge was the last version where the floppy boot would work with the Thinkpad's external CD drive.  Driver issue or lack of the proper driver in later versions.

In any case, I seem to remember an article about building a minimal boot floppy and using chroot to boot media attached to an unbootable USB port.  This would be the perfect solution:  Would work with any distro I chose.  More researching needed.

B  

--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Patrick Bartek <bartek047 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Patrick Bartek <bartek047 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Lvlug] Recommendations on a More Suitable Distro
To: "The Las Vegas Linux Users Group" <lvlug at lvlug.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 3:24 PM

--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Glen Hartzell <ghhartzell at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
 Crunch-Bang  is a light version of Ubuntu, so while you wind up with a
> light distro, the nice thing is that you have access to the Ubuntu 
> repositories  and will be able to do the "sudo apt-get install" thing.  As 
> to puppy 4.31, I had some odd intermittant errors and went back to a 
> version called "macpup" which is based on 4.2X. It's a bit slower, but 
> seems to be more solid. Macpup is interesting, comes with the JWM and the 
> Enlightenment e17 window managers. 

Might be an option for the Thinkpad, but installing anything on it is a nightmare of hoop jumping:  It will only boot off a floppy or hard drive.  I chose Debian mainly since it had a floppy boot option that transferred the boot process to an external USB CD-ROM drive with the Install CD in it.  I then distro-upgraded it to Etch over the net.  Not too many distros these days have a floppy boot-install
 options.

B

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