Laptops :: real old laptop...help

Hey,

This is what I have done, and it can/will be very useful in the future. check out ebay, and get yourself a laptop harddrive adapter. It allows you to plug your laptop HDD into your desktop. I have a very old Toshiba 105CS that is very slow. I just plugged the HDD into my 1.4GHz desktop and do everything there. I origionally got it for doing normal installs like mandrake or what not that required lots of compiling and installing, but it also helps when doing a DSL install and the such. Also very helpful if you only have a FDD. Just my 2 cents.

I have been struggling with getting DSL on my old Thinkpad 701C with a 75MHz 486, 360MB HD, 16 MB of RAM and no CD drive. I was able to copy the /KNOPPIX directory to the HD via NFS (I have a very rudimentary RedHat 6.2 running on it now), and I made a boot floppy. Everything goes fine until it tries to load the frame buffer, when I get this message:
modprobe: Can't locate module fb0

In fact, I looked in /lib/modules/... etc., I can't find any module named fb0.

Any help?

try typing in "knoppix vga=normal" at the F2 boot prompt.

I got it to work using floppies like the 1st guy said on page 1....I wrote up a HOWTO in the HOWTO section and Im sure anyone with very limited experience can figure it out

Brian
AwPhuch

Quote (sl70 @ April 11 2004,13:22)

Everything goes fine until it tries to load the frame buffer, when I get this message:
modprobe: Can't locate module fb0

In fact, I looked in /lib/modules/... etc., I can't find any module named fb0.

Any help?

fb0 is the first framebuffer device, just as eth0 is the first ethernet device. You need to find what type of video card your particular laptop model has; a common one is neomagic (modprobe neofb).

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