[TriLUG] OT: laptop needed

John Broome jbroome at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 15:15:32 EDT 2005


On 10/4/05, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.

Damn, thwarted from every direction.



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