However if you buy the $29 distro you get documentation, tech support, staroffice,
bootmagic, partitionmagic, e-books on linux... not to mention source code.
thanks,
bg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 5:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop
>
>
> My Mandrake7 cd was burned. Well by maximumlinux but, it was
> still burned
> free of charge. All I did was buy the magazine.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 4:40 PM
> Subject: RE: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop
>
>
> | Why can't he burn one?
> | It should be legal.
> | -=Ron=-
> |
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> | Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:59 PM
> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Subject: Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop
> |
> |
> | Mauricio
> | Part of this is guess work and hopfully someone out
> there will correct
> me
> | if I am wrong.
> | You will have to buy Mandrake since burning a CD is not
> an option. The
> | Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete can be purchased at Office
> Depot, Staples or
> any
> | of those type stores for $29.
> | You will be able to install using your SCSI CDROM but
> as you already
> | know you will not be able to use your CDROM once you boot
> into Linux and
> you
> | will probably need to use a Windows startup disk to load
> the drivers for
> the
> | CDROM in order to be able to start the installation
> program for Mandrake.
> | The minimum. installation size is 600MB so you would be
> able to do that
> | on an 800MB HD.
> | Good luck to you if you decide to do it.
> |
> | Charles
> |
> |
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Mauricio Tavares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:31 PM
> | Subject: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop
> |
> |
> | > My laptop is a lowly P75 without CDROM drive. Well, I do
> have one, but
> it
> | > it is external through a SCSI PCMCIA card according to
> the manufacturer
> is
> | > not supported by linux (fujitsu chipset). I would like
> to initially
> | > install Linux in a 800MB HD I have here doing nothing (I
> would swap it
> | with
> | > the one currently in the computer). My ethernet card is also not
> | > supported. How could I install Mandrake in the poor guy?
> | >
> | >
> |
> |
>
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