Oops. Well I just accidentally dumped the mail I'm responding to. This is Re: not wanting to buy a Debian CD or spend hours on the line downloading. I saw that there is a company selling Linux-on-a-drive advertising in Linux Journal. I think they were loading the drive with Debian 1.1. But you do have to commit to buying a 1.1G drive, so it comes out pretty pricy. Good if you want to upgrade your hd anyway. I can look up their contact if you don't subscribe to LJ; e-mail me.
It also occurred to me that I have a) a ready access to a steady supply of small (150-300MB) used ide hard drives at a good used price (approx 10 cents a meg) and b) a small amount of free capitol and c) a linux-savvy friend who is job hunting and needs spending money. Would people be interested in helping said friend pay for his beer and pizza if he were distributing a base/ install plus i386 binary .deb files (updated nightly via dselect, of course) for something in the area of $35 shipping included? (I think that's about what it would work out to) Some of the drives are pretty fast actually -- lotta Quantums/some WD Caviars. Would make a good swap device for older ISA/EISA bus PCs running the slow but ever-so-cheap conner/seagate 1G drives and such. Long as you aren't maxed out on ide connections, that is. Anyway I should probably check with my friend and see if he's actually interested before I go pimping his services on the Internet :-). For that matter anyone else is very welcome to implement the venture described above -- I won't flame; it's just an end-of-the-workday idea. -- Brian S. Julin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]