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Re: Linux Insatallion Party Today
Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> One guy brought mobile 386 (laptop), we didn't know what to do.I know
> that there is a special mobile dedicated site. I sent the guyhim to Eli.
>
> Eli, any success?
There was no chance...
1. No CD-ROM, and no SCSI (and don't forget, PCMCIA-SCSI is
problematic...). Installation could not be done through
networking, since he does not have Ethernet (I recommended
3Com EtherLink 3C589, a PCMCIA 10baseT card). Yes, there
was a floppy drive, but there were not so many diskettes
in the party...
2. No resources. It is not only disk/mem, but also the age of
this notebook. 3 years old notebooks had so many problems
(which you never faced on normal desktops).
3. No knowledge. For example: I wanted to give him the URL of
"The Linux Laptop Home Page" (which is:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ )
and he asked me "what is URL". I answered "the address of
the page that you see under Netscape", and he asked me:
"what is Netscape"... Sometimes, for some people, it is
better to use Win Those 95 :-)
In order to be successful, even when dealing with notebooks,
I suggest to go my way:
1. Buy the most expen$ive notebook in the market (I bought
Toshiba Tecra 720CDT, with Pentium and internal 1024x768,
32MB, etc.).
2. If you are planning to use a device, HAVE IT BUILT-IN!
(not PCMCIA!): you must have a built-in floppy and CD-ROM.
Prefer a notebook with built-in modem (I have). Don't try
to find a built-in SCSI. You won't find (except for Tadpole,
which is > 10K$, and unsupported in Israel).
3. Buy 3Com EtherLink 3C589, and put it in slot 0 (the lower). I
don't know the reason...
4. Have a desktop. It will allow you to backup your files (through
networking), unless you want to use dozens (or 100s) of floppies...
5. Be a UNIX expert...
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Eli Marmor
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