[LBo] Intros, etc.

[Tim Alexander]

Oh I'm still catching up too. I don't think there are boot floppys for
it, but I'm positive there is a link to one on the ubuntu forums.

On 10/19/06, Lonnie Mullenix <buckshot at scicable.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 20:13 -0500, Tim Alexander wrote:
> > You'll definately want to try xubuntu then. XFCE desktop, and runs
> > pretty well on my 286.
> >
> > On 10/13/06, Lonnie Mullenix <buckshot at scicable.com> wrote:
> > > WOW.
> <snip>
> > > As for the coming class, I have been giving some serious thought to
> > > trying to set up Ubuntu on an old laptop that I have.  It has been
> > > running Debian since I dumped Win95 off it, and has been a very solid
> > > little machine, all-be-it, a little slow, P133 maxed out with 64 meg of
> > > ram.
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Just one question about xubuntu, does it come with boot floppy options?
> I have been having all manner of issues trying to get that laptop to
> boot from a CD.  In fact, it came with a cable that is used to attach
> the floppy drive up as an external unit, and I assume that was for using
> a floppy boot/CD loader.
>
> Anyway, I will be checking it out better tomorrow, already past mine bed
> time, and I do have a copy of NetBSD that came with floppy boot images,
> so I can go that route if needed.  Used the boot floppies for the Debian
> Netinstall for the last installation I did on it.
>
> Thanks, as usual, already behind, and the class just started.  :-D
>
> Lonnie
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