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[NMLUG] CDROM drives
> I just got a donation of 140+ PCs, all with plenty of juice to run Antix
> Linux, but I have a problem - they don't have either diskette drives or
> CDROM drives.
If they have USB, you might be able to make do with just USB drives (either
thumb drives or USB CD-ROM drives, or USB hard drives), though an older BIOS
may not support booting from CD-ROM.
For installing, if they have network cards and an option in the BIOS to boot
from the network, you could do a network install (I don't know if Antix has
an option to do this, but it's pretty common
(http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Network-Install-HOWTO.html)
> Any leads you can give me on CDROM drives, anywhere between dirt cheap
> and free, are appreciated.
You could try Absolute Computing on 7401 Menaul -- if I remember right their
CD-ROM drives run between $5-15.
Good luck!
--
Andrea Landaker
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/
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