NeroZero
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Joined: Aug. 2005 |
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Posted: Aug. 19 2005,12:14 |
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Hi folks;
I am seeking to follow-up on a recent Linux Mag article to get old hardware up and running again... Here we go! It's a laptop with a Pentium & 16MB RAM! Win98 runs on it without any trouble so far. Now I went to a friend who burnt me a nice .ISO Image CDrom on a new HP laptop, and on his machine the DSL popped up right away after re-boot and connected to the network and eventually the internet without any trouble at lightspeed...
At home tough, the KNOPPIX boot promt comes, it gets my NeoMagic graphiccard, my usb stick, me sb compatible sound card, but when it comes to the point of starting up the X, then at most I ever got when playing around with FB vs. vesa and various resolution settings, was the desktop background with the toolbar at the bottom including time and date.. The CD drive runs and loads forevermore while the screen seems to hang
What can Win98 do, what Linux obviously in unable to? This really bothers me here.. I do not want to having become a rocketscientist, if you know what I mean..
Ok: Until we have (together) figured this thing out here, what about a solution 4 today? If I start it at "Init 2" (textmode), then how can I run my COM-Port modem, start the Internet services after having a pppd "Connect", TEXT browse with LYNX for example, if Dillo cannot do that (no clue?) and use mutt-like textbased emailing software. BTW how do I install this under MyDSL without X, and how do I save my config at let's say my DOS/linux partition or my USB stick, so that I can cut short KNOPPIX hardware detection each time trying out DSL to its perfection?!
(R there easy PPP scripts found somewhere where I have to all but insert phone number, user & PW?!)
Afterall, its linux 4 damn small systems, hence you could offer a version (iso. image) that go much more stuff on the CDdrive to pick from?! (These 50MB took less then 10 min to download on a DSL connection....) Here on the site it is bragged that one runs a stream with a 16MB laptop (lol) I cannot see this happening with me here, or I am instructed. (but that is the thing with WINDOWS. You have it right there, eventhough it is a lousy OS all the way!!!)
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