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Re: [TCLUG:13980] notebooks



Yes, it's one of those life-experiences that everyone must endure...like
when the grunts have to get mustard-gassed, just to know what it's like
so they can learn from the experience.  It's something that you don't
want to ever have to do again, but if you need to you're ready for it.


Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 
> >3. is
> >there a way to get linux on floppies?
>         Debian allows you to do a basic install from floppies. I heartily
> recommend that everyone do an entire install from floppies, at least once...
> once, mind you. :)
> 
> you end up with a very lean system, which you understand very well (because
> you have to think about each package that you install; repeatedly); and it
> teaches you many things (such as that a multi-disk .zip file can simply be
> cat'ed together into one big .zip file, then un.zip'ed; useful when you want
> to install a package that doesn't fit on a single floppy).
> 
> so go for it. :)
> 
> Carl soderstrom
> System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave.
> Minnesota DHIA          Buffalo, MN
> carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091
> 
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