Re: CDROM drives

Andrea Landaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.nmlug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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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