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Topic: frugal on IBM Thinkpad 560X, No sound and pcmcia modem not working

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doobit

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Posted: Nov. 02 2005,19:15

I would back up to a USB drive first using the backup/restore button on the control panel. Is your CDROM drive not working at all? You could boot from the floppy and run DSL from the liveCD. Then do a hard drive frugal install with grub right from the tools menu on the desktop. That would probably solve all of your problems.

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Posted: Nov. 03 2005,03:54

Thanks doobit,

No PCMCIA CD-ROM and no boot from usb.

I'm working on using Wingrub, maybe I can get that to work a soon as I school myself on it.???

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Posted: Nov. 03 2005,15:49

I remember seeing a thread here about someone that got it working under some very difficult circumstances, so I believe it's possible. I think they used the poorman's floppy install to get it working somehow. I don't have any experience with that though. Another place I saw that someone put a functional version of Linux on a floppy allong with grub-install and got it working. I think that's similar to the poorman's install. Try the info in this thread: http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....3;st=20

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Posted: Nov. 04 2005,02:50

Thanks,lots of info. in thread.

I'm going to keep working on Wingrub for now even though that means using W98. I am also working on booting Puppy from inside W98. I'm waiting for my copy of MEPISlite that will most likly go on the lappy too, couse I am running SimplyMEPIS on my desktop and hay a copy of Ubuntu will be in the mailbox anyday now, Linux is great!!!

Thanks for all the help.
Victor V.

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