[CS-FSLUG] Linux Advice

[Christopher Rose]

I have spent hours upon hours at distrowatch.com and I do not know if I can upgrade the memory on the laptop. I do believe that I can (for enough money) upgrade the hard drive. The laptop is a Toshiba WinBook XP, but I suspect that it has been tampered with as I do not believe that it's AMD chip is a factory installed device (The panel that would normally cover the chip has been cutaway around the the area where that chip sits).

Thank You for all the advice. I do not know how to upgrade or compile binaries and I do not know if I can install a floppy distro such as Debian Ham onto the laptop and then compile and install fluxbox on it (something I considered, but have rejected as being too difficult for a novice like me).

Pax,
Christopher


----- Original Message -----
From: Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 04:27:51 -0400
To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Linux Advice

> I assume you've scoured DistroWatch.com?
> 
> 
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:51:49 -0500, Christopher Rose <kf6snj at lycos.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Ironic that I should be asking for some advice right now, but I will anyway. As many know, I bought a laptop computer a few months back. It's specs were as follows:
> > 
> > 100Mhz
> > 8MB ram
> > 400MB hard drive
> > broken floppy drive
> > dead beyond recharging battery
> > 
> > Using a special adapter I was about to install Grey Cat Linux on it (though it installs and boots from a dos prompt). My concern here is this: Grey Cat has some limitations that I may be unable to get past. It is based upon slackware 4.0 and hence I do not believe that I can install some amateur radio software that I'd like to use for psk31. I looked into basiclinux, but I was unable to make it work (kept getting a 0X04 error message). TinyLinux and Damn Small Linux are both memory hogs. I would like to know if there are any other distributions of linux out there that might better suit my needs. I have tested DebianHam, but it does not have an xserver/client and this makes it almost unusable to me. I have also checked out BlueFlops, PocketLinux, and FloppyFW, yet none of these are as useful as I would like either.
> > 
> > Pax,
> > 
> > Christopher
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