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Posted: Sep. 21 2005,16:38 QUOTE

I was fed up playing with the 100CS that hates me, and decided to play with the machine I bought on the weekend for AU$50 at a car boot sale (like a flea market I guess). I knew the CD rom was shot and the HD close to toast when I bought it, and wasn't very convinced about the rest of it to be honest, but I figured I'd see what I could do with it once I got the 100CS up and running.

I *Was* grumpy and sleepy when I decided to shove the zip drive in the parallel port of this machine, and the dsl boot disk in the floppy drive.

;I'm not grumpy any more - it worked!

Specs as follows (roughly - it's late and I'm exhausted):
Compaq Armada 1590dt with 48MB ram and I *think* 166 Pentium MMX processor. Touchpad mouse and PCMCIA card are both working - CD ROM still fried as expected. PCMCIA card is D-Link fast ethernet DFE 650DXT, which also works on the Toshiba 100CS under windows95, and tomsrtbt, so should also work under DSL when i finally get it (DSL) up and running on the 100CS

DSl version is 1.5, boot floppy image is the current one from ibiblio dsl current direstory. boot options from floppy are dsl zipboot lowram
I don't think I used any other cheat codes, but I'll do it again tomorrow to  be sure.

But wow @#$%!!! first time, and she booted!
Gotta love that.
Oh, and this post is from that very machine.
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Posted: Sep. 21 2005,16:51 QUOTE

Most excellent!

and Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Brian
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Posted: Sep. 26 2005,21:11 QUOTE

This might help

http://tuxmobil.org/armada1592dte.html

Brian
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