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Topic: Olivetti Echos P100E, How to install DSL?

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PandionKnight Offline

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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,15:05

Hi I'm a Linux noob with SuSE10 on my kids pc at home. And I thought it would be fun to try to resurrect an old Olivetti Echos P100E laptop with DSL. Currently the Echos has no OS installed. It has (non-hot) swappable floppy and cd drives. The Pheonix 4.04 1.30.1 BIOS does not allow for boot from cd, only C:, a:, or A: then C:. I have tried looking for a BIOS upgrade with no luck.
I did find this site Linux on Olivetti, which mentions using a cable to use the floppy drive connected externally to the parallel port for the boot disk (which I have prepared). The only thing is that this cable was lost long ago. Is this a lost cause?
Shane.

skaos

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Posted: Jan. 18 2006,12:18

You have at least two options:
1. Take out the disk, connect it in another PC (disconnect all other hard disks), install DSL and put the disk back.
2. Create a 55-60 MB dos partition and copy the 50 MB knoppix file to c:\knoppix and use a DSL boot diskette or loadlin to boot. I don't know the specifics for booting - search the forum.

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Posted: Jan. 18 2006,14:26

I have just tried option 1 and found that both the qty and spacing of the pins on the 1Gb HDD do not match the IDE socket in modern towers.

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Posted: Jan. 18 2006,18:07

$9 will get you an adapter cable from Cables To Go. This will allow you to connect your laptop HDD to your PC.

Can probably find it elsewhere online for about the same price or a little cheaper.

Cheers!