Laptops :: My old 486 that will soon have dsl

Hi guys! I have a compaq contura 420c with 24 megs of ram and 202meg hd and i need help installing. It DOES NOT HAVE A CD DRIVE.

should I first use partition magic rescue disk to format 130 megs to FAT then install win 95 on the other partition for networking over dsl to the 130 meg partition and then I will use the 95 partition eventually as a /home partition. but my major question is will dsl run on a FAT partition? note for booting I may have problems due to the compaq way of bios.

I think it is possible: you can move the 48 MB knoppix file from the CD to c:\knoppix, then create a boot diskette. When booting from the diskette, I think the knoppix file will be found and essentially you will be running the live-CD from the hard disk (I'm not quite sure though, search the forum for more info). But it probably will be very slow - is there any way you can transfer the disk to a PC with a cd drive and then do a hard disk install, and then put the disk back?

simply buy an ide cable that is the sort that runs from a standard ide thingy to a laptop hd, plug it in, install dsl and go

Quote (linster @ Oct. 31 2004,00:00)

http://damnsmalllinux.org/install_from_floppy.html

I did the same thing with a 75Mhz pentium classic bud...it took a bit of work but it runs now...new life in that beast!

It seems on your setup you might be able to use that method (harddrive space may be an issue) or you can try the [url=http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=11;t=1634;hl=network[floppy network install[/url] that roberts has made (this might save you more room on your drive...

Hope that helps

Brian
AwPhuch

thanks guys!

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