Laptops :: DSL on an old Laptop, install problems, pls help!



Hi there,

I have an old Laptop, the manufactor is "Seh".

It has 16MB RAM and 133MhZ Pentium.

Windows95 runs very good on it, fast and even Office 97 runs on it!
So DSL with OpenOffice should also run what you think?

The problem is I can't install DSL!

The Laptop has a CD Rom Drive and a Floppy Drive but I can only use one at the same time.

It doesn'T boot DSL from the CD, what can I do?
Honestly, if Win95 and Office run well on it, you may want to stick with them. DSL will be OK but maybe not as fast as Win95. Openoffice will defintely NOT run on that box. There just isn't enough ram.

Chris
See the DSL wiki booting section for information on the "poorman's install".

Short answer:

1) Boot Windows95 with CDROM attached.
2) Copy file from DSL cd-r disk to C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX  (note the uppercase letters)
3) Shut down computer and boot with floppy attached and DSL boot floppy
enter:

lowram frugal

at the boot prompt.

4) When already booted, you might want to create a DOS swapfile using the option in the DSL main menu.  This will improve performance.

Best of all, your original Windows95 system is still intact.

But you do need some free hard drive space in order to copy the file over and to make a DOS swap file.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Nov. 03 2005,17:56)
See the DSL wiki booting section for information on the "poorman's install".

Short answer:

1) Boot Windows95 with CDROM attached.
2) Copy file from DSL cd-r disk to C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX  (note the uppercase letters)
3) Shut down computer and boot with floppy attached and DSL boot floppy
enter:

lowram frugal

at the boot prompt.

4) When already booted, you might want to create a DOS swapfile using the option in the DSL main menu.  This will improve performance.

Best of all, your original Windows95 system is still intact.

But you do need some free hard drive space in order to copy the file over and to make a DOS swap file.

I have IBM ThinkPad 365xd (120 Mhz, 48 MB RAM)
Its CD-ROM  usually cannot read CD-Rs. I want  to make poorman's(frugal?) install.
I copied KNOPPIX image in C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX  from network and made a boot floppy under win98.
Floppy is working, but it cannot load image file, saying "Cannot boot" or something like this.
Any ideas?
Uff, forgot to say I've tried  "dsl frugal" option.
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