From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 22 00:57:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA09351 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA09342 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caught.inna.net (tom@caught.inna.net [206.151.66.7]) by tyger.inna.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA22309; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 04:06:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:58:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Arnold To: Jake Hamby cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux on a Disk? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > Here's a bizarre one: A company called Cosmos Engineering > (www.cosmoseng.com) sells a product called "Linux on a Disk" which is an > actual 1GB IDE hard drive with Linux preinstalled. The price is $259. > > Is it just me, or does that sound like a pretty peculiar way to install > Linux? It won't even make the hard parts of installation (XF86Config, > kernel config, network setup) any easier because they have no idea about > the rest of the system it is going into! Bah! Linux users will buy anything. Print Linux on toilet paper and they'd buy it. Come to think of it, I'd like some Linux toilet paper... :-) ( covers up his FreeBSD coffee mug, t-shirt, mousepad, poster... ) +-----------------------------------------------+ : Tom Arnold - No relation to Rosanne : : SysAdmin/Pres - TBI, Ltd ( inna.net ) : : The Middle Peninsula's Internet Connection : +-----------------------------------------------+