[clue-tech] Need lots of help at Installfest

[David L. Willson]

I got the SATA, but strangely, no CDROM.  And the ethernet's looking like it's going to be ~really~ hard.

David L. Willson
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
MCT, MCSE, Linux+
tel://720.333.LANS

----- "David L. Anselmi" <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> David L. Willson wrote:
> > It's a DOD project.  Running in a VM is not an option.
> 
> Hmm.  I know DoD.  Had to tell them recently that RHEL 4 isn't
> supported 
> on any of the hardware they can buy next year so they have to pay to 
> upgrade/port to RHEL 5.  We'll see if that line item makes the cut
> into 
> the budget.
> 
> Since they want old, old linux can you convince them to get you an
> old, 
> old laptop.  (Someone is bringing a libretto.  You can get a serial
> port 
> for that.  Maybe you can do a trade.) :-)
> 
> The hard thing is stuff like there's no SATA driver and your laptop
> only 
> has SATA.  But it sounds like you can build your own kernel.  So if
> you 
> can get that to work with old gcc you're set...  Sounds like maybe 
> you've solved the economic slowdown, at least at a local level.
> 
> Be fun to look at tomorrow.
> 
> Dave
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