[olug] Small old laptop challenge

Bill Brush bbrush at gmail.com
Mon May 4 19:51:28 UTC 2009


Well as a test I was able to get a PC card NIC working with the laptop
under Win95B.  For some reason Netscape 3 and IE 3 aren't finding a
lot of sites that they can use.  :-D

Bill

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Shawn L. Djernes <shawn at djernes.org> wrote:
> If Debian Sarge will run on it.  The installer supported making boot, root, and driver floppy  from there you could install from a http or ftp mirror.
>
> Shawn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 11:58
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Small old laptop challenge
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:
>> There was no support for external CD boot on the 701c.  It also had no
>> internal networking.   So I don't think there was a way to do PXE boot.
>
>
> Ok, as a test, I can confirm that it will boot to a DOS floppy.  At
> least Sam has saved me looking for a CD drive for it in the scrap bin.
>  It looks like my options are either floppy install or an installer
> that can find a PC card NIC and a network install.
>
> Bill
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