<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>I think an adapter which will allow you to install the laptop drive in your desktop computer is only about $5.- You could do the install from another computer and possibly be able to boot your laptop with the new installation<br><br>...Glen<br>--- On <b>Tue, 3/23/10, Patrick Bartek <i><bartek047@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [Lvlug] Recommendations on a More Suitable Distro<br>To: "The Las Vegas Linux Users Group" <lvlug@lvlug.org><br>Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 3:24 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Glen Hartzell <<a ymailto="mailto:ghhartzell@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=ghhartzell@yahoo.com">ghhartzell@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>>
Crunch-Bang is a light version of Ubuntu, so while you wind up with a<br>> light distro, the nice thing is that you have access to the Ubuntu <br>> repositories and will be able to do the "sudo apt-get install" thing. As <br>> to puppy 4.31, I had some odd intermittant errors and went back to a <br>> version called "macpup" which is based on 4.2X. It's a bit slower, but <br>> seems to be more solid. Macpup is interesting, comes with the JWM and the <br>> Enlightenment e17 window managers. <br><br>Might be an option for the Thinkpad, but installing anything on it is a nightmare of hoop jumping: It will only boot off a floppy or hard drive. I chose Debian mainly since it had a floppy boot option that transferred the boot process to an external USB CD-ROM drive with the Install CD in it. I then distro-upgraded it to Etch over the net. Not too many distros these days have a floppy boot-install
options.<br><br>B<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Sent via the Lvlug mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:Lvlug@lvlug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Lvlug@lvlug.org">Lvlug@lvlug.org</a><br>Set options or unsubscribe at <a href="http://lvlug.org/mailman/listinfo/lvlug" target="_blank">http://lvlug.org/mailman/listinfo/lvlug</a><br>The Lvlug mailing list is hosted courtesy of LasVegas.Net<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>