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[Bo Williams <bo AT mrboboto.com>]

Just download liveCDs from various distros until you find one that 
works. If it'll boot the CD, it'll boot after an install.

grady wrote:
> Everything *but* Suse. I'm not really wedded to Suse; a friend just said 
> that his network install had gone pretty smoothly & that it seemed to 
> have better ACPI/laptop support than various other oldschool distros.
>
> And no, don't try to tell me to do Gentoo on this 2-year-old thinkpad 
> with a tiny hard drive.
>
> Speaking of non-bleeding-edge hardware, does anybody have a suggestion 
> for a good small-footprint distro that's actually currently being 
> maintained that would be a good match for a Transmeta 3200-based 
> touchscreen webpad type device, booting from a 512-meg CF card?
>
> Semi-current maintenance would be nice primarily because I need the 
> prism-GT wireless chipset support that's in the 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels.
>
> One would think that Transmeta's own Midori aka Mobile Linux would be a 
> good candidate, but they appear to have abandoned that ship back in 2001 
> or so.
>
> Ross
>
> Bo Williams wrote:
>
> > Does Pair Networks have a SuSe mirror? Their gentoo mirror is always 
> > supser fast for me.
> >
> > grady wrote:
> >
> > > Well, the Greens & Libertarians are going to formally request a 
> > > recount in Ohio once the results are certified. Is anybody doing the 
> > > same for Florida?
> > >
> > > Ross
> > >
> > > p.s. also, does anybody know the fastest server from which to do a 
> > > network install of Suse 9.1? Don't say ibiblio; I keep getting horked 
> > > up partway through.
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