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I've been having a blast with this little laptop – when it's been working. Ah, welcome to the world of OS alphas! I went to install the latest build of the LindowsOS, and discovered that the external CD drive didn't wanna do what it was supposed to do. Ugh. I've got the image (ISO) burned to a disc, but the Iomega USB 2.0 Predator isn't cooperating at boot. I'll have to venture out into the land of peripherals and purchase a new USB CD-RW (1.1 or 2.0) tomorrow. Although, I'd much rather borrow one; perhaps the lab will be friendly? I'll find a way. I always find a way.
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June 5th, 2007
at 7:04am
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Anonymous
February 24th, 2003
at 10:18pm
Chris, did you say you were installing Lindows ME?
Anonymous
February 24th, 2003
at 10:40pm
What??? That little laptop doesn't have a firewire port? What a piece of crap!!! Seriously, do what I “hear” some people do… they go down to their local BestBuy (I see they have one near your studio) or Fry's, “test-drive” a USB CD-RW for a few days and returned it. Yes, it's something many people won't do, but hey, I don't really see a problem with that. :)
Anonymous
February 24th, 2003
at 10:53pm
Dude trust me I know it kinda look's like a bad Idea to buy one of these little suckers but after a while you'll star liking it, it's already groing on me and I'm seriously thing of buying one myself!
Anonymous
February 24th, 2003
at 11:24pm
lol @ James, I agree with you, everybody buys and returns products the next day, especially Frys. That's what their known most for doing because my brother works there and there's nothing but lines out the door on the return lines.
Anonymous
February 25th, 2003
at 7:36am
Maybe Lindows ain't all it's cracked up to be.
Anonymous
February 25th, 2003
at 8:57am
Lou lactually lanted lo linstall lindows? Lunny! ;)
Anonymous
February 25th, 2003
at 3:27pm
Wow, that's not cool. So it's the USB CD drive and not the Image, is it? Yes, that must suck greatly. Welcome to the fun I had a little over a year ago when MY CD drive decided to die on me right before I attempted to install an image of WindowsXP.
Anonymous
February 25th, 2003
at 6:47pm
I know that they'll give it to you Chris.How can anyone resist that face ! ;)
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February 26th, 2003
at 6:51am
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Anonymous
February 26th, 2003
at 8:06am
Chris,
What is Lindows? Don't mean to be Linux-illerate, but I haven't heard of that before. I know Redhat, Mandrake and Suse Linux. But as for Lindows, I don't have a clue.
Anonymous
February 27th, 2003
at 1:06pm
If I remember correctly, there aren't any 16 bit USB drivers. So no, it wouldn't work at boot.