So yesterday I decided to continue trying to figure out how to get SUSE Linux on the steaming pile of crap Toshiba M200 that has been sitting on my desk at work.  (Don’t worry, this won’t be a post loaded with technobabble and a documentation of how I got Linux on the steaming pile of crap.  I would get bored with such a post long before you would! ;) )
Since we’re very much a Windows shop and connecting non-standard systems to the tubes network is strictly verboten, I got quite a few puzzled looks from people as I continued to curse at the steaming pile of crap.

After two hours of research, I finally figured out that while the steaming pile of crap won’t boot off of CD-Drives that CAME with the thing, it will boot off of some other CD Drive that we had in one of the classrooms. Once I got the thing to boot off the CD, the installation went swimmingly.

I can’t count the number of times I was asked quite skeptically “so why exactly are you trying to load Linux on that tablet?”

Telling them that I had this free copy of an OS just burning a hole in my pocket didn’t appease them.

Telling them that the only way I could learn about Linux was to load it and use it, kinda appeased them.

Telling them that it’s professional development would cause their faces to light up and walk away thinking I as being productive.

On a side note, I told my boss’s boss that I had taken over the branch in a bloodless coup, she didn’t seem impressed… She had found me working at my boss’s desk on something for him while he wandering who knows where. I warned him that if he left me alone I was going to start answering the phone and making decisions for him, he didn’t believe me…