Laptops :: Small Laptopn

Hey my firend showed me his laptopn, it has a 160MB HD a com port a parrallel port, a pcmica slot and what looks like a DVI port. and a track ball!

wat in terms of DSL can i do with it?

nullmodem to it? i saw a post about you can use the printer port for networking? maybe i was dreaming. we dont wanna buy a pcmicia card but if needed we will!

You can play with parallel port networking if you like (search google for 'plip').

A 160MB hard drive is big enough to do a poor man's or frugal install of DSL and still leave you with about 100MB left over for a swap file and for storage space.

Installing DSL on a laptop like that will most likely be a pain in the butt but you should eventually get it going.

The big question to ask is:

Do you have enough RAM? I wouldn't bother trying to run graphics on less than 16MB of RAM.

A 16MB RAM system should work fine as long as you create, format, and active a swap file or swap partition on the hard drive.

Just make sure to not run more than one program at a time or your hard disk will start working overtime with all of the memory swapping that is required.

Good Luck.

tripppy check that ur pcmcia bridge thingy works with dsl, i have about 7 or 8 compatable cards sadly dsl for some reason doesnt work with my old presario

plip ok, ill check that at home before i go any further.
If he is running less than 16mb should i stick to DOS?

We want to use it as a sound recorder for jamming!

We'll have to find a cheap sound card.

If you have less than 16MB, you may be able to use DSL in text mode by typing "dsl 2" (version 0.6.3) or "knoppix 2" (older version) at the DSL F2 boot prompt.

Another option would be to get a version of Linux that is designed to work with even less RAM than DSL, like low-resource Vector Linux or Basic Linux.

Good Luck.

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