newbies linux adventure

[Nancy Sollars]

Back in the UK they called me the Hardware king .. especially after i got
all of the hardware of my Dell Latitude 266XT laptop working 100% without
any issues.

I bet i can get slackware working on both these machines...

Nige

----- Original Message -----
From: "robert jorgenson" <snoogans@qwest.net>
To: "PLUG" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:53 PM
Subject: newbies linux adventure


> okay i had an old p1 133 mhz computer and i couldn't get linux installed
on it for some reason(hardware related) and EBo was gonna help me out with
it but something unfortunate happened to that box :( My friend
> hooked me up with another box it also has a p1 133 mhz and i dont know
what board it has, but i cant get linux installed on this either, most of
the hardware is same as old one(HDD, ram, floppy, cdrom, NIC, sound,
> video etc...). So my question is does anyone know where i can get some old
hardware that will work in this box that will work with linux, i am pretty
sure it has something to do with either the HD or the video card. okay i
> just remembered this one utility that inventorys your pc and tells you
everything so i will list the important stuff.
>
> main circuit board: BIOS: Award Software 4.50PG 09/07/95
> video: S3 Trio32/64 PCI (732/764) [Display adapter]
> HDD: Generic IDE hard disk drive (2.15 GB) -- drive 0 - i happen to
remeber this being a fujitsu but i cant remember which model
>
> if anyone knows why those wouldn't work or where i can get stuff to
replace them(cheaply if possible) i would appreciate it. BTW so far i have
tried to install SuSE, mandrake, and zipslack and bigslack
>
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                                       -thanx
>
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