[frgeek-michiana] Re: Warehouse Report - 2/19/2008
- From: "Kevin Yendes" <kevin.yendes@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:22:15 -0500
I can open on thursday the surgery went well so I will make an attempt to be
there.
Kevin
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Richard Zimmerman <ke4rit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Tom Brown wrote:
> > :: Warehouse Wireless Laptop
> >
> > Mike also looked at a Dell P2/266 laptop with working battery and
> > docking station which we plan to use as a wireless computer in the
> > warehouse. The Dell doesn't have a CDROM drive so we need to get
> > creative re installing a distro.
> >
> > 1. We can buy a CDROM drive on Ebay.
> > 2. Install over a network. Which requires booting with a lightweight
> > distro, configuring the network interface and transferring control to
> > a Debian network installation server.
> > 3. Remove the hard drive and mount it in a desktop machine via an IDE
> > adapter. Install distro from CD. Replace in laptop.
>
> Any chance it's an industry supported hot swap bay and we have a
> CD-ROM laying around in the server room to fit it?
>
> Richard
>
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