On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Lucas Vogel wrote:

> That depends on what you defition of "friendly" is...

I meant to say "more friendly to hardware changes"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Thelin [mailto:eric@thelin.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:32 PM
> To: Plug Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Need help upgrading an old system
>
>
> Since linux is much more friendly than "other operating systems" you can
> simply put the hard drive in another machine, run the install then put
> the hard drive back.  Of course finding a floppy that you can boot from
> would be simpler but this way you have more choices on your
> distribution.
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Smith, Stephen P  (AZ75) wrote:
>
> > I have an older PC (AMD 133MHz) that will not boot from the CDROM drive.
> > The RH 7.0 boot images won't load from the floppy drive (although an
> > installed system can use it just fine). It is currently running 6.1.
> >
> > Since I just got Cox at home and since I need to configure it anyway, I
> want
> > to upgrade.
>
>

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