If you are going to buy an old laptop, try to get one with a bootable CD, or at the very least a floppy and CD, since installing via any other method on old hardware is torture
I have several old laptops installed with Debian using net installs via floppy. This is also the norm on the BSD's. The CD is only needed for big distros like Mandriva, Fedora, etc.
If you are going to buy an old laptop, try to get one with a bootable CD, or at the very least a floppy and CD, since installing via any other method on old hardware is torture
I have several old laptops installed with Debian using net installs via floppy. This is also the norm on the BSD's. The CD is only needed for big distros like Mandriva, Fedora, etc.
It stunk, plain and simple.