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Re: [TCLUG:1041] Official InstallFest Announcement



Richard Seymour wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Clay Fandre wrote:
> 
> > > Is it necessary to preregister for the InstallFest?
> >
> > No pre-registration is required. Everyone is welcome. There will be come
> > CD's floating around for those of you without the latest and greatest.
> > Try to get there as soon as possible. I think we are only allowed to be
> > there until 3pm, so don't wait until the last minute.
> 
> If I bring my 486SX-24 Mhz laptop *without a CD* will someone be able to
> help me turn it into a Linux machine? (It is currently running Win95.)

Does it have any PCMCIA slots?  We should be able to do an FTP or NFS
network install.  I can lend a PC card or an external parallel-port NIC
to use.

Related question: can Linux to be installed from ZIP disk, or does that
just invite Driver Hell?

--
Carl Patten
Systems Administrator
Trimodal Inc.