[LUGSB] Re: What next?

[Mark Drago]

I'm still waiting to get the piece of mail from the Student Activities
Office so that we can request the use of a room in order to hold a
meeting.  Once we get that we should be good to go.

I am having a problem that I hope someone on this list can help me
with.  I bought a laptop today.  It's an old toshiba satellite 410CS
(Pentium 90, 40MB ram, 1.3GB disk).  I got it for $60.  The problem I'm
having is mostly due to the registration that I must do in order to get
net access from within the resnet network on campus.  I want to install
debian.  So, I'm going to use the network install.  However, before I
can get the laptop to access the internet I need to register it.  This
registration requires a web browser.  So, I need a bootable floppy (or
series of floppies) that will boot, configure my PCMCIA network card,
connect to a network via DHCP, and let me use a web browser.  I can't
boot off of a CD so that option is out.  So far I have tried the debian
install floppies, the mandrake boot floppy, the QNX4 Demo Disk :o), and
floppix.  Any help or suggestions is appreciated.

Mark.