Re: [aclug-L] Installing on a crusty old machine

["Cory T. Lamb" <ctl4u@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Greg House wrote:

> I really don't want to invest any money into this beast, as it's not worth
> it.  I just want to mess around with it and learn some stuff.  It all works,
> complete with a spiffy little 80MB hard drive.  What's a good way to
> approach it?  Right now, I guess I'm tending toward the floppy route, since
> it's easy (albeit time consuming).
Do you have another machine with an IDE bus and cdrom.  What I have done
several times with my laptop (no CDrom) is to take out the drive and put
it in another box.  I do the install (except for hardware specific stuff)
then I put it back in the original machine.  I haven't run into any
problems.  I'm sure there are a plethera of reasons this is not a good
idea but like I said it works for me.  Just a suggestion.
~Cory

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                          Cory T. Lamb                                  
                    <ctl4u@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Media Lab Manager                       Chief Engineer
Information Media Services              KBCU FM-88.1    
        Bethel College  N. Newton KS                            
                
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