Does it support usb booting? Or even floppy booting (I'm guessing it
does)? If yes to either you could always do network installs. We used
to do network installs of suse here at the office...
Also if it does support usb booting what about an external dvd
enclosure... that way you could share your dvd burner/drive with
multiple computers...
Cheers,
Patrick
P.S. I use a POS laptop with a borked monitor for my home "server"...
nice and quite and the battery means it'll stay up for hours!
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 18:33 -0800, Jaye Inabnit, ke6sls wrote:
> Hi gang:
>
> Tough question here. The old 600MHz gateway with 196mb of ram now seems to
> be
> suffering cdrom failure. It can only take 256mb of ram, runs as slow as a
> celery chip can, but it works reasonably well with blackbox. Should I try to
> max out ram and replace the cdrom or put it in the garbage can this
> Wednesday?
>
> Heck, can I even get a CDrom drive for it?
>
> advice welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jaye, ke6sls
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