Laptops :: Compaq Conturo Aero 4/33c
yes u read that right, one of the smallest laptops ever in production, im atempting a hd install as i type, this beast runs at 33mhz, has no floppy and has a 124 mb hd, i decided to take out the hard drive and install from a defrent laptop, "if u ever owned one of these u know it means motherbourd is comin out." i figure it will be easier than geting it on there via serial. ok im off to get this project moving. ill post all my results under this topic. 
Sounds like fun, man.
interesting . . .small problem. installing a boot loader. it seems the instalation doesnt install one, sooo im guna mess around some more ill keep u posted. "then again i havent dug into dsl alot yet, give me another hour" lol
RAM me be your limiting factor. How much RAM do you have?
its got either 16 or 24, i forget either way, im just looking to install it, if it boots or not is a difrent story, lol, well ive got a dos partion with the cd copy thing done, i dont really like that, id like a REAL linux partion and and automated installer for the like, im not into the custom type thing never got that deep into the boot process. but anyway, this is what ive atempted, i partioned a drive with dos, booted from the cd, told it to knoppix tohd=/dev/hda1 it completed, so thats good, but next problem, my system has no floppy drive, so i atempted to use a linux boot loader called LOADLIN. i have it in the autoexec.bat with the folowing line.
loadlin kernal initrd=vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 rw
i did some searching on line to find it the vmlinuz i have it pointing to is a direct copy of the floppy, along with the entire contents on the dos drives root, it starts to boot then desplays this msg
kernal panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:01
im asuming 01:01 is the time of acurance, now from here i figured hmm that large file called knoppix in the directory, how do i get at its contents. but if u got a better idea for me or a way to use a real bootloader and a linux filesystem with this installed like anyother linux system please do tell. im guna be all eyes on this forum till then. lol thank u for reading this far.
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