[DC LoCo] An Install Fail Party

Nathan Bahn nathan.bahn at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 02:20:12 BST 2010


Kenneth Stailey--
Isn't Puppy Linux guaranteed to run on anything?
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On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Kenneth Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> I am hosting a Linux install fail party where you bring the computers that
> can't run Linux and spend countless hours trying and failing to do so.
>
> My favorite one so far is a DELL 4500S.  It can run FreeBSD perfectly but
> blows up in so many interesting and different ways while trying to install
> Linux depending on the boot options
> http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.35/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> you give it.  Naturally the default options fail too.
>
> Please let me know if you are interested in bringing your
> guaranteed-to-fail-to-install-Linux hardware and camcorders, etc. to bring
> the party to the world.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
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