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#1 2006-12-22 08:51:15
- Mr Green
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Got an old laptop...
Hi,
I have got an old laptop for my youngest ... a sony vaio pcg-n505sn
It has an external cdrom drive so I had to use usb pendrive to hold live iso image as disc would boot then drop out to reduced shell [since found a kernel line that may get round this!]
Anyway managed to get DSL running on it seems ok
Goes against the grain but I may try to install Xubuntu as it does not have ethernet port only usb she does not need web access likes to use Tuxpaint Abiword Potato Guy ;-)
Weird a couple of years ago I was worried about installing Linux on my computer...now well .... I blame Arch for new found knowledge 
MrG
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#2 2006-12-22 14:46:29
- FUBAR
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Re: Got an old laptop...
You have children?! :shock:
A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk I have a workstation.
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#3 2006-12-22 15:02:26
- Mr Green
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Re: Got an old laptop...
two ..... working on third lol
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#4 2006-12-23 15:54:50
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Re: Got an old laptop...
Ok installed Xubuntu took a while but no real problems ... could do with net
no ethernet so may have to hook router via usb [usbnet!]
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