Sounds like a couple of notebooks I have sitting on the shelf at home.  Check out http://www.linux-laptop.net/ you might be able to locate detailed instructions on how to do it for your model.  I remember one of the older machines I installed via plip.  woot that was fun.  good luck.

Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: tickticker [mailto:tickticker@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:24 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: old notebook conversion


I just got my hands on an OLD notebook.  it's an acer model, here's the rough specs from the tertiary site supporting such old machines.

System Info
PN: 91.AA201.017
MB: AN760I
Ext: 786
Model: AN760i
RAM: 8 MB
Video: 512 KB
Cache: 0 KB

AN760I, w/ IDX4/75, 8MB RAM 
1.44 MB, 3.5" AcerNote
540 MB, DBOA-2540 2.5 IBM
8 MB Memory on-board
Chips & Technology 65535 (Onboard)

Keyboard, 18511-NSK
LCD, AN735/760 Color Sharp LM64C142 
 
Ah! no cd you say? 540 mg HDD? 8 mg RAM? could it have the original win95 install?  why YES!!! 
 
the question is, can I do anything with this?  test virii? if I could get it to play nethack or preferably falcon's eye then 20 hours of labor would be worth sitting in bed wasting brainpower on a good character.  yes, i have no other notebooks. 
 
if it was win 3.1 or 95 i needed, no problems.  but how to put linux on this thing and what flavor would fit and run, preferably with a gooey? 
 
yes i know falcons eye and nethack run on win95, but i would rather go to the ends of the earth than run those.  I could learn alot from this install. 
 
thanks for you future input, 
 
anthony