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The tough part here was getting the install process to start -- the floppy is on a USB bus, the NIC and CDROM are on PCMCIA bus, and Linux bootdisks typically don't support either. Luckily if you cold-boot with the CDROM plugged in the BIOS will treat it as an IDE interface; simply put in the Linux CDROM and reboot, specifying ide1's memory address on the linux kernel prompt. I installed Mandrake 7.2 and did my job with Netscape, StarOffice, and Dia. I really needed the ability to do network analysis at this company, so Linux was a perfect fit. I had zero problems at all with the software, but the hardware had two problems: One, it had poor heat management and began to make an awful grinding noise when the CPU fan and heatsink warped into each other; two, it was sexy and got stolen at a trade show.
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