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I have the system listed in the subject line (currently with Windows
95 installed). It has a floppy drive (no CDROM drive) and a couple of
PCMCIA slots.
I was thinking I'd like to try to setting up a minimal linux install
on it. I doubt I could run X on it but perhaps with a NIC I could use
it for email, newsgroups, lynx, etc.
Any advice you have on setting up something useful with this little
laptop would be appreciated.
Thanks
carlos seramos wrote:[color=blue]
> I have the system listed in the subject line (currently with Windows
> 95 installed). It has a floppy drive (no CDROM drive) and a couple of
> PCMCIA slots.
>
> I was thinking I'd like to try to setting up a minimal linux install
> on it. I doubt I could run X on it but perhaps with a NIC I could use
> it for email, newsgroups, lynx, etc.
>
> Any advice you have on setting up something useful with this little
> laptop would be appreciated.[/color]
I suggest you go over to freshmeat.net and search fro floppy distros, think
there was a distro on 2 1.44MB floppies which had X included.
//Aho
carlos seramos wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have the system listed in the subject line (currently with Windows
> 95 installed). It has a floppy drive (no CDROM drive) and a couple of
> PCMCIA slots.
>
> I was thinking I'd like to try to setting up a minimal linux install
> on it. I doubt I could run X on it but perhaps with a NIC I could use
> it for email, newsgroups, lynx, etc.
>
> Any advice you have on setting up something useful with this little
> laptop would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks[/color]
Either Slackware 4.0 or Tiny Linux (based on slack 4.0)
[url]ftp://ftp.slackware.com[/url]
[url]http://tiny.seul.org/en/[/url]
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-alex49201
carlos seramos wrote:[color=blue]
> I have the system listed in the subject line (currently with Windows
> 95 installed). It has a floppy drive (no CDROM drive) and a couple of
> PCMCIA slots.
>
> I was thinking I'd like to try to setting up a minimal linux install
> on it. I doubt I could run X on it but perhaps with a NIC I could use
> it for email, newsgroups, lynx, etc.
>
> Any advice you have on setting up something useful with this little
> laptop would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks[/color]
I have a Toshiba 110CS with 16 MB ram and about 800 MB hard drive. A
friend gave it to me about a year ago (no cdrom). I install debian
potatoe with a 2.2.20 kernel about 12 months ago. I use lynx on it. On
the install I created a couple diskettes and did a install from the
debian web site (It helps if you have a hi speed link like dsl). This
is a command line only system without X. The slowest process is
running dselect on it.. takes forever to load with alot of disk
thrashing and disk swapping. My workaround is to research the
packages and read the descriptions from the web site and then do a
apt-get install package name when I decide on a package to install.
Here is a link for some interesting reading
[url]http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-appendix.en.html#s-tasksel-size-list[/url]
and this link:
[url]http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/installguide/[/url]
have fun!