[CLUE-Tech] booting CD based Linux from old machine

[Charles Oriez]

At 09:45 PM 9/20/2003 -0600, Michael Riversong wrote:

>There's an obscure distribution called Lyconis, and another called 
>Redmond, which can be installed from within Windows.  I've noticed the 
>Redmond comes up well on an autorun on a 166 mHz Gateway from 1997 -- i'd 
>love to install it but don't have a big enough hard drive on that 
>particular machine.


Those might be the same thing.  Redmond has changed its name to 
Lycoris.  Only references in Google to lyconis are one from a WIndows XP 
user, and one from a spelling challenged gamer.

Maybe I should try that one for the Pentium One machines that I can't get 
Red Hat 9.0 installed on.  BIOS does not want me to choose to boot from the 
CD drive, mostly on old Compaqs and Gateways.

http://lycoris.com/

ftp://ftp.lycoris.com/pub/linux/redmondlinux

Looks like Lycoris is selling desktop machines with linux preloaded through 
Walmart.



Charles Oriez     coriez at oriez.org
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