From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 21 22:27:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA20239 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:27:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamby1.lightside.net (hamby1.lightside.net [207.67.176.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA20230 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jehamby@localhost) by hamby1.lightside.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00334 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:13:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hamby1.lightside.net: jehamby owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:13:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@hamby1 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Linux on a Disk? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Here's a bizarre one: A company called Cosmos Engineering (www.cosmoseng.com) sells a product called "Linux on a Disk" which is an actual 1GB IDE hard drive with Linux preinstalled. The price is $259. Is it just me, or does that sound like a pretty peculiar way to install Linux? It won't even make the hard parts of installation (XF86Config, kernel config, network setup) any easier because they have no idea about the rest of the system it is going into! All I can say is... weird! -- Jake