[Cialug] Venting, old hardware give-away

[D. Joe Anderson]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:43:32AM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> Mandriva will give you a warning if it can't install a package, but will 
> continue on and finish the install / upgrade. Depending on what packages 
> they are... you may end up with a system that's not so usable when 
> you're done, so it's kind of a blessing / curse situation.

While we're gloating ;-) I'll just say this is what's nice about
distros that lean a little more towards supporting minimal
installs.  The downside is that you then have to piecemeal stuff
onto the box sometimes (witness my once-Ubuntu laptop that is
now running Debian sarge, but without several features that it
had with Ubuntu).

> I've seen several systems where you can install with the media just fine 
> on one PC, but it has these kinds of errors on another, so trying a 
> different CDROM drive might be a good thing to try.

I'll jump on that bandwagon, too.  they don't seem to make
CD-ROM drives like they used to.  Maybe this is a good time and
place to put in a plug for my free-for-the-taking (mind you, I'm
in Ames) HP Vectra pizza box style systems, one with a 166MHz
Pentium and one with a 200MHz Pentium, but both with working
CD-ROM drives, I think ;-)

-- 
D. Joe Anderson          http://www.etrumeus.com/~deejoe
". . . we could end up with a situation where it's legal to own
hardware that automatically fires bullets really fast but
illegal to have software that automatically fires bits really
fast. -- Jenny Reiswig"