[TriLUG] OT: laptop needed

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 15:10:57 EDT 2005


> I don't have any laptops hanging around ($BOSS might when he gets back
> from OH), but can you boot a knoppix CD until you get your own
> recovery laptop?
> --

Sadly, no.  I don't have a 9 pin connector on the laptop and the USB
to serial thing doesn't work under Knoppix.  And, under 3.8, the
Ethernet controller doesn't seem to work either so I'm dead in the
water there.  This would be my preferred route (booting knoppix),
though.

Greg



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