On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:47:11AM +0100, Andrew Savory wrote:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Aquarius wrote:
o It only has a floppy drive
Any spare ISA slots you could lob a network card in? You could then install across the network. Option 2 would be to borrow a CDROM temporarily, assuming you have a spare IDE channel you can plug it into.
Ho ho ho ho no. The earlier PS/2s weren't IDE, they were ESDI. You can put a SCSI card into them, but there's no way I'm buying all SCSI stuff: if I had that much money then I'd just buy a 486 with it ;)
That's why my plan was to do a network install using PPP or SLIP, since then all I need is a null modem cable. I could probably even do PLIP, but I'd need to buy a Laplink cable and they're expensive, I believe. I don't suppose anyone who's coming to ALUG28 has a null modem or Laplink cable?
since I now have a daughter (born Monday evening, 11.12pm)
Congrats! What's she called? (What's the female equivalent of "Linus"? :-)
She's called Niamh; I did float the idea of naming her after Grace Hopper but it was Vetoed :)
Aq.