[PLUG] HP 9000 712/xx

[Olds, Aaron M]

Yeah I am half-way tempted to pick up another which does have a cdrom and
floppy...
Seems crazy that these machines were sold without them.

-----Original Message-----
From: AthlonRob [mailto:athlonrob at data.4t3.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 2:03 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] HP 9000 712/xx


On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:32, Olds, Aaron M wrote:
> I have an HP 9000 712/60 machine that does not have a CD-ROM drive
> or a floppy drive.  I would like to install Debian Woody but can't
> without a floppy or cdrom.  I can't seem to find any information on
> the web that states whether this machine can take a PC style floppy
> drive.  Does anyone know?  Moreover, it has an external SCSI II port
> on the back but I have read that it only accepts a minimal set of
> external cdrom drives do to buffer size differences.  Is there another 
> method that I could use to get Linux on this thing such as somehow 
> remotely install the distro?  Doesn't seem possible without a floppy
> drive at least.  I know it is an old machine but I just want to put 
> it to good use :)

No floppy or CD-ROM?  Bummer.

Could you possibly pull the hard drive out of the sucker and put it in
another machine for installation purposes?

-- 
AthlonRob <athlonrob at data.4t3.com>


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