Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > jmeier at worldcomputerexchange.org > or goto www.worldcomputerexchane.org for other office locations. one 'g' short: http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/ > > Some of the computers I get are not wiped, some are - the ones that are > - usually ship blank, buuuttttt - there's nothing stopping me from > putting LINUX on them... I've put Lycoris on a few - but would like to Hmmm, they don't mention Linux on their web site, maybe you can get them to change that. :-) The WCE may be a way to expose a lot of people to Linux. In fact I wonder if they run the risk of getting in trouble with M$ if they don't have licenses for every box Windoze installed. > develop a lean-n-mean install of Redhat/mandrake/suse - whatever... I > think you can run though a install and then save off your choices for That option does come up but I have never used it. I guess I don't know what they would do with disk partitioning if the disks are not the same size. It would be nice if you could just tell the installer to use a scheme that it "thought" was good and just tell you if the disk was too small. > future installs yes? I currently have about 15 old compaqs that were > wiped and are now sitting blank... I was going to stop by install fest > this weekend and get a feel for the event - but I can only stay a short > while as it seems to be wedding season and my saturday is packed! Dang it! You'll just have to come to the next one! -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list