[olug] Panasonic C-35 Toughbook and Linux

[Will Langford]

pxe + net install ftw.

Any geek, particularly any linux geek, should have PXE stuff going on
wherever they work on systems.

-will

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:46 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> You can also do a network install. Most distros support that. You boot
> up to a very minimal network CD or USB drive, and then download the
> packages over the interwebs.
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Kelly Williams
> <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can you boot to a external CD or Flashdrive. If flash drive install iso
> of
> > ubuntu to the flash drive and install from there.
> >
> > Kelly
> >
> > On 1/23/2010 7:56 PM, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> >>
> >> tI recently was given a Panasonic C-35 Toughbook.  I'd like to put some
> >> version of linux on it.  The CD drive doesn't work well -- slow spin-up
> if
> >> at all.  It has a floppy drive that can be put in also.  What options do
> I
> >> have?  It currently has Windows XP on it
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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