Laptops :: Old Think Pad...



Hello:

I have tested the embedded version of DSL i must say its fantastic!! but i would like to try it on real hardware ( you know what i mean ) i happen to have a pretty old lap top it is a think pad, i dont remember the model ( i leave it at my parents home) but it is a pentium 95 Mhz (pure power), it have 32 Mb of Ram and 800 Mb of hard disk capacity ( it sucks i know) but the think is that it does not have cdrom or network card, i have an old paralell port cd burner which is some kind of paralell scsi device so i was unable to use it with a debian installation floppy; i was looking for other installation method, the lap has a pcmcia slot but i have tried several cards right now and due to the fact that not even windows 98 can make them function; i beleive it is damaged, the only way i can think of is trhu the paralell port, using a lap link cable but i dont know how exactly install linux with it; any more ideas of how can i install DSL into this beauty?, i'm shure that DSL will have better performance that win98? what do you think?.

By the way i must apologize because of my bad english, i'm not a natural english speaker.

Thanks in advance for all your help.!!!
I haven't tried it but the wiki has documentation on a poorman's install and it described using a bunch of floppies.  There might be other good ideals from searching the forum on "poorman'.

You might be able to use another linux that fits on two floppies.  Search google on "Blueflops".  If your think pad has a modem maybe you could download the iso but 50M could take days.  I booted up with Blueflops and used it to partition and format a hard drive.
Quote (genlekt @ Aug. 18 2006,14:02)
Hello:

I have tested the embedded version of DSL i must say its fantastic!! but i would like to try it on real hardware ( you know what i mean ) i happen to have a pretty old lap top it is a think pad, i dont remember the model ( i leave it at my parents home) but it is a pentium 95 Mhz (pure power), it have 32 Mb of Ram and 800 Mb of hard disk capacity ( it sucks i know) but the think is that it does not have cdrom or network card, i have an old paralell port cd burner which is some kind of paralell scsi device so i was unable to use it with a debian installation floppy; i was looking for other installation method, the lap has a pcmcia slot but i have tried several cards right now and due to the fact that not even windows 98 can make them function; i beleive it is damaged, the only way i can think of is trhu the paralell port, using a lap link cable but i dont know how exactly install linux with it; any more ideas of how can i install DSL into this beauty?, i'm shure that DSL will have better performance that win98? what do you think?.

By the way i must apologize because of my bad english, i'm not a natural english speaker.

Thanks in advance for all your help.!!!

I also only have floppy drive, Toshiba Satellite 100CS, 24MB memory, 500MB HD.

I am running Win95 and want to install DSL as dual-boot.

How to get the DSL distro on muti-floppies or how to create a multi-floppy installation from the CD (on another machine) or whatever?
Please see the wiki.
(Links on front page of damnsmalllinux.org)
I have copied KNOPPIX and the 'boot' folder to D:KNOPPIX, I also tried it on C:, they both work the same.  I get the message you passed an undefined mode number, I don't understand this, my laptop runs DSW (95) all right.

I am now doing  a Frugal installation as per clive s ay.

In dsl 2 I have (re) partitioned hda3 as Primary Linux ext2 108Mb it all looks good in cfdisk. I had previously left the free space in GDisk and created the partition in BlueFlops, but re did it in cfdisk just to make sure.

When I reboot into dsl 2 and enter /usr/sbin/frugal_instal.sh I get bash: /usr/sbin/frugal_instal.sh: No such file or directory

What to do?
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