RE: tlug: install to no-CD notebook

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:
> 
> > some that use proprietary (Windows-only) drivers. If it were me, I'd
> > probably buy a SCSI CD-ROM and a general-purpose PCMCIA SCSI
> > adapter. The initial cost would be considerably higher, but then you'd
> > have a SCSI adapter that could be used with various devices, and a
> > CD-ROM that could be connected to any computer with a SCSI adapter.
> 
> Seconded.  The lowest-cost approach to doing this (at least if you are in
> reasonable distance of Akihabara or Osaka's Nipponbashi) would be to scour
> junk shops for an external CD-ROM enclosure (a nice Sun unit might be
> 8,000 to 10,000 yen, or a PC-oriented unit might be as low as 2,000 to
> 3,000 yen) and then buy a new SCSI CD-ROM drive and pop it in there.  I've
> seen 32X models for around 11,000  yen in Akihabara.  In the worst case,
> the drive and enclosure would then cost about 20,000 and may be under
> 15,000.  I don't know what PC card SCSI adapters cost, but that may be the
> greater part.

I'd say at least 10,000.  Is it worth paying 30,000 yen to install Linux
on an old monochrome 486, though??

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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