Re: Beginner kit
Oops. Well I just accidentally dumped the mail I'm
responding to. This is Re: not wanting to buy a Debian
CD or spend hours on the line downloading. I saw that
there is a company selling Linux-on-a-drive advertising in
Linux Journal. I think they were loading the drive with
Debian 1.1. But you do have to commit to buying a 1.1G
drive, so it comes out pretty pricy. Good if you want to
upgrade your hd anyway. I can look up their contact
if you don't subscribe to LJ; e-mail me.
It also occurred to me that I have a) a ready access to
a steady supply of small (150-300MB) used ide hard drives
at a good used price (approx 10 cents a meg) and b) a small
amount of free capitol and c) a linux-savvy friend who is
job hunting and needs spending money.
Would people be interested in helping said friend
pay for his beer and pizza if he were distributing a base/
install plus i386 binary .deb files (updated nightly via
dselect, of course) for something in the area of $35
shipping included? (I think that's about what it would
work out to)
Some of the drives are pretty fast actually -- lotta
Quantums/some WD Caviars. Would make a good swap device for
older ISA/EISA bus PCs running the slow but ever-so-cheap
conner/seagate 1G drives and such. Long as you aren't maxed
out on ide connections, that is.
Anyway I should probably check with my friend and see
if he's actually interested before I go pimping his services
on the Internet :-). For that matter anyone else is very
welcome to implement the venture described above -- I
won't flame; it's just an end-of-the-workday idea.
--
Brian S. Julin
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