[ale] OT: OT OT OT and very long! Anybody sick today?

[Jonathan Glass]

I've had the hardest time getting Linux on my G3 and my Sun E250 boxes. 
I finally gave up, and surplused (sp?) the G3, and gutted the E250.

If you get that thing to boot of the CDROM, let me know your magic
trick.

Thanks

Jonathan Glass

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 16:32, Greg wrote:
> ummmm no
> 
> feeding bad OS to pc == bad idea
> feeding bad food to body == bad idea
> 
> ok, maybe it's a stretch but I had to make the effort
> 
> goes back to reading Right-leaning-Leftist-Pro-MicroSoft-Open-Source
> websites put up by H1 Visa developers who are NAL and also write spom
> (offshore spam) for Drew.
> 
> yah - ok, you are right (slaps SunBlade)(slaps SunBlade again with Debian
> no-install CD's for sparc but harder ..adds cussing for effect)
> 
> ok, won't happen again  ... sniff sniff ...
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> > Benjamin Scherrey
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:20 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: RE: [ale] OT: OT OT OT and very long! Anybody sick today?
> >
> >
> > Damn it Greg! That last paragraph was clearly on topic ruining an
> > otherwise perfect thread of off-
> > topic debate surpassed only by discussions of H1 Visas! I hope
> > you're pleased with yourself...
> >
> >   -- Ben
> >
> > 12/30/2003 1:43:55 PM, "Greg" <runman at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> >
> > <correctly labeled off-topic stuff snipped>
> > >I am sorry about the lack of details (I wanted to put in some
> > excerpts from
> > >the book) but I have been typing so much today that I have
> > reached the point
> > >where I am spending more time editing errors then typing. The reason ? -
> > >trying to get a decent OS on my SunBlade 100. Debian CD's are a
> > no-go and no
> > >one but Sun & Solaris can get the dammed floppy drive to work.  What a
> > >dichotomy of architecture - the best and worst in one box.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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