On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:10:09PM +0000, John Miskinis wrote: > About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560 > (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with > Linux on. > > Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to > learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up > getting everything to work on it. > > My advice is to get a laptop with a builtin CDROM, and > your life will be a bit easier. >
I've installed debian on an old NEC Versa (486/75) and never found its lack of cdrom drive to be a detriment when I was installing. (I did a network install). If you need to install via cdrom (for whatever reason) then, obviously, a built in cdrom drive makes things easier. -- David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
