[Klug-general] Laptop Linux

[dan attwod]

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.
If you want a truly lightweight Ubunut solution though you need to install
just the 'server' package and update it and install somthing like
xfce.

dan

On 07/03/06, Alan Pope <alan.pope at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/7/06, Nathan Friend <nathan.friend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good idea, only I don't have a way of connecting the laptop hd onto the
> > standard ide interface...
> >
>
> You can get adaptors very cheaply from your local computer shop
> usually. I have a few :)
>
> I would suggest that you stick it in another (newer -
> cd-bootable-capable) laptop (if you have one) but it's likely it
> wouldn't fit. As I remember the tosh of that era had quite large hard
> disks physically. I doubt they'd fit in a more modern laptop.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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