[ale] Edubuntu Local Apps and Hard Drives : was Need Help sending PCs to Haiti

[Sergio Chaves]

Jim, thanks a lot! However, I need drives that show signs of reliability since next time for me to return to Haiti will be a year from now. They have no one there tech oriented that I could direct over the phone to correct hardware issues.

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On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:

> On 08/08/2012 10:23 AM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
>> *My* problem is that all client PCs are diskless. Does anyone have 06 
>> old HDs (PCs are 486s); size does not matter in this case  :-)  - 20 Gig?
> I have an 80G that I think is OK.  I'm erasing it now.  I also have a 40 
> that doesn't seem to work.  It spins up and it shows up in dmesg but 
> fdisk -l /dev/sdf doesn't show anything.   I also have a couple of 2G 
> drive, unknow status.  And a 30 G I'll have to test. So maybe I have two 
> drives you can have.  I'm close, just up the road from Woolsey.
> 
> Jim.
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