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[ale] Edubuntu Local Apps and Hard Drives : was Need Help sending PCs to Haiti
- Subject: [ale] Edubuntu Local Apps and Hard Drives : was Need Help sending PCs to Haiti
- From: sergio.chaves at gmail.com (Sergio Chaves)
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:18:04 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <CAKvT5tYy0ff0h_g+zSdY-oR6REkGLb=4izxJkXt92mNMxgWNZg@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
Jim, thanks a lot! However, I need drives that show signs of reliability since next time for me to return to Haiti will be a year from now. They have no one there tech oriented that I could direct over the phone to correct hardware issues.
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On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> On 08/08/2012 10:23 AM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
>> *My* problem is that all client PCs are diskless. Does anyone have 06
>> old HDs (PCs are 486s); size does not matter in this case :-) - 20 Gig?
> I have an 80G that I think is OK. I'm erasing it now. I also have a 40
> that doesn't seem to work. It spins up and it shows up in dmesg but
> fdisk -l /dev/sdf doesn't show anything. I also have a couple of 2G
> drive, unknow status. And a 30 G I'll have to test. So maybe I have two
> drives you can have. I'm close, just up the road from Woolsey.
>
> Jim.
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