slightly off topic: looking for CD-ROM drive

[zscoundrel]

I picked up a Backback CD-ROM drive from Home Depot to load up my 
laptop.  It worked pretty well, and they have drivers for Linux - 
although I think the PCMCIA is now supported under the new kernal.

It is a good drive and works fairly well and was not terribly expensive 
if you are looking for one to augment your laptop.  If you live out near 
K7 and Johnson Drive, we could get together for a mini-install-fest 
someplace.  I have several versions of RedHat on CD, including 7.2.

KRFinch at dstsystems.com wrote:

> Hello all!
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> I have several old laptops (p-50's without CD-ROM Drives) that I would like
> to get an O/S loaded on.  I'll probably load Suse on one, and Win9x on the
> rest.  I know that there are other options available, but it would be a lot
> easier all around if I could plug in a parallel port or PCMCIA CD drive
> into the systems to load from.  Once the systems are loaded, I can get by
> with just a network connection and floppy drive, so whatever I use doesn't
> have to be portable.
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> If anyone has a PCMCIA or parallel port CD drive (with drivers) that I
> could buy/borrow, please let me know.  Alternatively, if anyone knows where
> I could buy one of those parallel port IDE drive cases (since I have
> several IDE CD drives laying around) I would appreciate that info as well.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Kevin Finch
> Network Administrator
> DST Systems, Inc.
> 816/435-6039
> krfinch at dstsystems.com
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