[ale] How Would I

[Jeff Hubbs]

Perhaps the parental units (I'm showing my age - MEBST!!) would agree to set
you up with a junker box - a low-end Pentium with 32MB RAM and 1GB of drive?
Many businesses GIVE AWAY computers like that, or you can pick them up from
the likes of Micro Seconds for $150-200.  Maybe your school district has a
pile of such systems.  Providing you avoid KDE and Gnome (well,
Gnome/Enlightenment at least), you can make do with a 486 if you have to and
you might be able to "hot-rod" a 486 into acceptability.  

I have a P/200MMX here with 32MB, and running KDE realy HURRRRTS at login
time (swapping on the slower-than-a-laptop's-drive one-platter Quantum
Bigfoot contributes mightily).

Barring that, yeah, get out of the house. ;-)

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thompson Freeman [mailto:tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 1:36 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] How Would I
> 
> 
> 
> Another option suggests itself - use the dos oriented command 
> boot loader
> (the name of which insists on escaping me at the moment 8-(). 
> Depending on
> the sophistication of the parents, and the level of distrust 
> of linux, and
> the size of the harddisk available, it might be the most 
> convient approach
> while giving the least sign of rebellion and disobediance (as 
> a parent -
> what AM I saying here?) As long as lilo doesn't show up on 
> the screen, and
> Windows boots first thing by default - most people (IMHO) are 
> unlikely to
> notice two files hiding on the disk to get to linux.
> 
> Of course, if parents are dead set against linux, and have 
> some technical
> computer skills (or are somewhat "snoopy"), the safest/smart 
> thing to do
> would be to dump linux until getting out of the house. Raising parents
> rarely works...
> 
> In anyevent, I wish the youngster good speed in being able to 
> rejoin linux
> openly soon. 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Josh Freeman wrote:
> 
> > Another option is to set the machine to dual boot and set 
> Windows as the
> > default OS[sic]. You will still need to make the boot disk 
> as described
> > earlier, because installing Windows will probably blow away 
> lilo, and
> > you will need to reload it.
> > 
> > Josh
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