Too powerful a weapon
Forum: HD Install
Topic: Too powerful a weapon
started by: xaccrocheur
Posted by xaccrocheur on Jan. 08 2006,10:19
... in witch the hero gets a weapon he can'handle and kills himselfMan, I got two old notebooks for free ! Yay ! From my girlfriend's job, medics too stoopid to use a computer. Those machines are almost not used. And now they *throw it away*. People.
(Infamous mini-Vaio PG505FX, PMMX@266, 32M RAM, 5Gb Disk, very small, like 12')
I needed a laptop that's dependable, tiny and autonomous (is that a word ? I'm a mean frenchie) to *write* stuff. Is'nt this thing just THE thing ? AND I broke my toshiba satellite celeron 700 (that costed me my younger sister) just by lokking at it, AFAIC.
Those are gems : Some of the tiniest laptops ever, all complete w/ attached CDRom, Floppy, and port replicator ! One of the machines look dead, good for pieces anyway, and spares.
OK so I tried various distros, and DSL is the only one to NOT kernel panic like a girl
. BUT it looks like once the (linux) system is loaded, it stops seeing the CD drive ! Only the BIOS will, to boot, but after that, obviously some. is missing !once the CD booted, won't see it's CD anymore. It's attached via a dedicated PC-card and at every boot, DSL says scannong for USB devices... OK, and then : SDL can't find any KNOPPIX system, dropping you to a very limited shell. And indeed.
On the other hand, there IS an install of Win2k on this laptop (where the CD IS seen & used, BTW), of witch I wanted to get RID, or at least, REDUCE to a drastic 1Gb, thinking it was impossible. Where again are the instructions to install the DSL install files *into* a win partition, and to mount it from a CD boot so as to start a REAL install, starting by the management of the partition table ?
I'd also like to know where the floppy boot image file can be found.
Thanks very much guys
thanks everyone ! Linux just rules.
Posted by xaccrocheur on Jan. 10 2006,14:56
I finally found out. dsl ide2=0x180 nopcmcia vga=788. Thank you very much 4 your help guys.