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Posted: Sep. 14 2005,16:30 QUOTE

This OS is awesome.  Thanks to the programmers, and anyone else involved with this project.  You've helped me to revive an old notebook.  Here's the specs.

amd k6-2  300mhz
96MB ram
floppy drive
CD-rom 32x
USB port broken
Hard drive totally corrupt, unusable
Battery is no good


this notebook was a paperweight.
I used an iso editor to add files to my DSL, and a re-writable disk.  plenty of room on a 800MB disk to make good use of this notebook.  I can't run DSL in ram, so I have to keep the CD mounted, but if I really needed to I can save to a floppy, LOL
Next step is to get a pcmcia wireless card for this thing.
IS NDISWRAPPER included in DSL???, if not I can add it i'm sure.  I know there's some wireless support, but as always we never know if it will work, until we try.

I am amazed at how fast this old machine runs with DSL, much better than win98, which i can't use anymore because the HD is corrupt, I've got bad sectors on the first five tracks, and can't figure a way to change the geometry of the drive to make a formattable partition.  

Thanks again, DSL

Mike
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Posted: Sep. 15 2005,00:29 QUOTE

Can I trade you my laptop for that one?

The battery works good, hard disk is okay, and it's maxed out on ram.

And yes, DSL has ndiswrapper.

System >> Net Setup >> Ndiswrapper

-J.P.

P.S. it's a 100mhz lappy with 40mb of ram. DSL rocks on it. :P


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Posted: Sep. 16 2005,16:52 QUOTE

Mine is a 133Mhz Compaq LTE 5300 133Mhz 32Meg RAM, 2.1Gig HD, dual booted with win98 and DSL makes Win98 look like its sitting still!

I need more RAM and a freeking ac/dc adapter for the laptop part as the dang docking station suxors!

Brian
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http://www.smoothwall.org <-- Ultimate firewall for the world!
http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php/userID:6107 <--My BOINC stats!
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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,12:18 QUOTE

I am using DSL on a Dell Latitude 200MHz with 64Mb RAM. Fan Dabby Dozy as we say in Glasgow. Got it printing EZ on a Wondoze served network printer and can get to Windoze shares with ease. For info, I did the apt enable thingy and then downloaded and installed Gimp. It is blazingly fast even on this little box. It is also very light on battery it would seem. I am excited about computing for the first time in ages again and thank you all for your hard work. 1.5 is a dream.
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Posted: Sep. 26 2005,19:04 QUOTE

I got a toshiba 440 CDT here. Added 64 megs of ram, and am planning on converting it over to compact flash sometime soon.

For all the tech toys I play with, I keep coming back to it as the most reliable machine I've ever used. Only thing I had to do was add some modprobe info to bootlocal.sh to get the sound going.


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