[CS-FSLUG] RE: Laptop

[R. Thompson]

Thanks Chris,

     I have long sinced removed any MS operating systems from the
laptop, and have had it working to some degree on Corel Linux 1.0, Storm
Linux, Vector Linux, and finally Debian Woody.  Vector was the fastest,
but took a lot of work to get the basics working, and then crashed after
doing an automatic software update.  Woody was alright, but I wasn't
able to get the printer working.  I may do what you have done, remove
the hard drive and connect it to another machine and load a new
operating system onto it, as this machine will not boot from the newer
bootable software.

          Ron T.

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 22:33, Christopher Rose wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Gee, need a Linux OS for your laptop? May I suggest Grey Cat Linux? The URL for it is:
> 
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/peterdekoning/main.htm
> 
> Or, if you would prefer. I can e-mail it to you via a series of e-mails. I must warn you that you will need at least the ms dos file "command.com" and a fat/vfat formatted hard disk. The reason for this is that Grey Cat Linux, though a true Linux distro, boots from a directory called "c:\linux" on a dos system. Naturally you can edit the "autoexec.bat" file to automatically boot into Grey Cat Linux. I have installed Grey Cat onto my laptop and so far I like what I do see. However, until I either fix the floppy drive or else hook up the laptop to a wi-fi connection with my DSL router, I am forced to remove the hard disk from the laptop from the hard drive if I want to install new software (which I do, but I feel I can wait).
> 
> Now, just on the technical side, Grey Cat is based upon Slackware 3.5 and BasicLinux 1.0 and is what is called a "floppy" distro. This means that you will be installing via a series of floppy disks. It takes about ten disks and you will need to copy and rename linux.r00. It needs to be renamed linux.r08 or the software will not install. I have been through this process and I know what I am saying. I just hope that it helps.
> 
> In Christ,
> 
> Christopher Rose
> KF6SNJ
> 
> The "Cat" is out of the bag, Grey Cat Linux
> 
> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.greycatlinux.myweb.nl"><img src="http://www.greycatlinux.myweb.nl/mini.jpg" border="0" width="88" height="31"></a></p>
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Ron G. Thompson, |^|
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
www.petomai.org   ron at petomai.org
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