[Wylug-discuss] [off-topic] Sony Vaio Spare parts

[Daniel Walker]

Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Mar 2004 10:04 am, Daniel Walker wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have a knackered Sony Vaio R600-series? We've got one, but
>>some muppet lost the HD mounting brackets and the HD->Mobo connector.
>>Sony don't sell spare parts.
> Sorry Dan, can't help with the parts, but I'm hoping to get my hands on a new
> one soon and was wondering what sort of experience you've had with it
> regarding Linux.
>
> It'll be coming pre-installed with XP, but I'll soon shrink that partition.
> The idea is to dual-boot (probably Fedora depending on how it tries out on a
> test box here) and have a VFat partition for file swapping.

Well, to be honest, it's a user machine that I support, so it's not had
  Linux on it. If we ever get the bit I'll try booting Knoppix and
report back if you like.

Dan