[CS-FSLUG] Laptop

[Christopher Rose]

Laptop is a Toshiba WinBook XP with an AMD-X5-133SDZ chip. Speed=100MHz. Hard Disk is 533MB. USB=NO. Modem=2400bps. Serial Ports=2. Parallel Port=Yes. PS2 Port=Yes (tried using my tower's mouse on it when Grey Cat was still installed. Grey Cat did not like my scroll wheel).

Hope these specs help. I think that the ram is about 8MB (possibly 12MB, not sure). Thank you for your time.

Pax,

Christopher




----- Original Message -----
From: Bradly McConnell <bradly.mcconnell at gmail.com>
To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Laptop
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 22:51:23 -0500

> 
> On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:20:42 -0500, Christopher Rose <kf6snj at lycos.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Distribution Help Please!!!
> > 
> > I recently tried to install Basic Linux 3 on my laptop. Problem is that to install anything onto my laptop's hard drive I have to remove the drive from the computer and hook it up to another computer (usually I use my wife's machine as it is easier to open than mine). Unfortunately I can not get it to work. I have tried pretty much everything that has been suggested to me. I am contemplating putting Grey Cat Linux back onto the laptop, though I must confess that I do not really care for this idea as I do not like the idea of having a v/fat filesystem on my laptop. Also, I want to have something that boots automatically into Linux and preferably without using loadlin.exe as it forces me to use a v/fat filesystem. Also, given that the floppy drive on my laptop does not work, I want to try and install what I need onto the hard drive before I put it in the laptop (I do not have an ethernet card for the laptop and seriously doubt that I can obtain one that will work, not to mention that DCHP protocol is not support by Grey Cat).
> > 
> > I have tried Damn Small Linux and Feather Linux on my laptop but they will not work. Nor will Sam linux or anything else I have tried. Does anyone have any suggestions before I decide to do the stupid and reformat my laptop to a v/fat filesystem, install dos 6.0 and grey cat 3?
> > 
> > Pax,
> > 
> > Christopher
> > --
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> Try looking into a usb floppy drive, they are fairly cheap these days.
>  You didn't provide any specs for the laptop, so I don't know if it
> supports usb or not.  The other option would be a usb cd/dvd drive. 
> Without a drive or network capability, I would think your options are
> somewhat limited.  If you can write the filesystem to the drive, there
> should be a way to put a boot loader on the drive, and then have it
> point to an install directory.  I haven't tried it with linux, but
> there should be a way.  If not, you can try doing the install via
> serial cable using a null modem adaptor, but that will be quite slow. 
> Sorry I couldn't be more of a help.
> 
> Brad
> 
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