User Feedback :: reviving old notebooks

This OS is awesome. Thanks to the programmers, and anyone else involved with this project. You've helped me to revive an old notebook. Here's the specs.

amd k6-2 300mhz
96MB ram
floppy drive
CD-rom 32x
USB port broken
Hard drive totally corrupt, unusable
Battery is no good

this notebook was a paperweight.
I used an iso editor to add files to my DSL, and a re-writable disk. plenty of room on a 800MB disk to make good use of this notebook. I can't run DSL in ram, so I have to keep the CD mounted, but if I really needed to I can save to a floppy, LOL
Next step is to get a pcmcia wireless card for this thing.
IS NDISWRAPPER included in DSL???, if not I can add it i'm sure. I know there's some wireless support, but as always we never know if it will work, until we try.

I am amazed at how fast this old machine runs with DSL, much better than win98, which i can't use anymore because the HD is corrupt, I've got bad sectors on the first five tracks, and can't figure a way to change the geometry of the drive to make a formattable partition.

Thanks again, DSL

Mike

Can I trade you my laptop for that one?

The battery works good, hard disk is okay, and it's maxed out on ram.

And yes, DSL has ndiswrapper.

System >> Net Setup >> Ndiswrapper

-J.P.

P.S. it's a 100mhz lappy with 40mb of ram. DSL rocks on it. :P

Mine is a 133Mhz Compaq LTE 5300 133Mhz 32Meg RAM, 2.1Gig HD, dual booted with win98 and DSL makes Win98 look like its sitting still!

I need more RAM and a freeking ac/dc adapter for the laptop part as the dang docking station suxors!

Brian
AwPhuch

I am using DSL on a Dell Latitude 200MHz with 64Mb RAM. Fan Dabby Dozy as we say in Glasgow. Got it printing EZ on a Wondoze served network printer and can get to Windoze shares with ease. For info, I did the apt enable thingy and then downloaded and installed Gimp. It is blazingly fast even on this little box. It is also very light on battery it would seem. I am excited about computing for the first time in ages again and thank you all for your hard work. 1.5 is a dream.

I got a toshiba 440 CDT here. Added 64 megs of ram, and am planning on converting it over to compact flash sometime soon.

For all the tech toys I play with, I keep coming back to it as the most reliable machine I've ever used. Only thing I had to do was add some modprobe info to bootlocal.sh to get the sound going.

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