Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Help

jtd wrote:

I have yet to come across a machine on which you cant install a linux distro.

It has to be done in a reasonably quick time with available resources. Many a times even giving a demo on a first visit can be very difficult. Network boots are not possible in stand alone machines. A client of mine has a decent Asus board that's a few years old but no Debian based distro boots live into this. I have a collection of live CDs that I carry everywhere. Finally only Sabayon booted with full desktop. I would get various device IO errors with the debby ones. After wasting more than an hour trying various distros and boot options, the client gets fidgety and starts forming his opinion about GNU/Linux.