I did the use a doner pc method recently with Ubuntu and it worked like
a charm. The ide to laptop adapter was only £4 from Maplins. <br>
If you want a truly lightweight Ubunut solution though you need to
install just the 'server' package and update it and install somthing
like <br>
xfce.<br>
<br>
dan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/03/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Pope</b> <<a href="mailto:alan.pope@gmail.com">alan.pope@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 3/7/06, Nathan Friend <<a href="mailto:nathan.friend@gmail.com">nathan.friend@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Good idea, only I don't have a way of connecting the laptop hd onto the<br>> standard ide interface...
<br>><br><br>You can get adaptors very cheaply from your local computer shop<br>usually. I have a few :)<br><br>I would suggest that you stick it in another (newer -<br>cd-bootable-capable) laptop (if you have one) but it's likely it
<br>wouldn't fit. As I remember the tosh of that era had quite large hard<br>disks physically. I doubt they'd fit in a more modern laptop.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Al.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kent mailing list
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