Okay, my machine isn't that old.  I have a PII with 128MB.

Would that work?  Hook up the HD to another machine and then install the 
OS.  Switch it over to the older laptop?  I have another laptop I could 
use for that if needed (I don't have an external notebook HD device.

I downloaded the new gOS today (I think the Beta version).  I must say, 
I really like it.  A little plain, but runs quick.

Mike Storke wrote:
> Chip, I got my hands on a very old laptop as well: a Hitachi E100 with
> 16 MB RAM and a P1-100 non-MMX.  Win-95 1st edition is currently
> installed on it, and the screen is mostly ok.
>
> The problem is that this is a sub-notebook: no cd-rom, which was meant
> to be an external unit like yours.  Since I can't find it, I finally
> got
> my hands on a Backpack parallel-port drive.  Assuming it will boot off
> CD, this is a definite possibility.  The thing is, I can't remember
> what
> year the El-Torito standard came out.
>
> Then I came up with option 2, which I've also read about elsewhere:
> get a 3.5 to 2.5 inch PATA adapter and install the drive as a slave in
> a
> desktop computer.  You can do anything you want with it now.
>
> In addition, I found a good deal on the 100 MB drives used in this
> thing (4 bucks!) so I got a couple and will just install onto a fresh
> drive, keeping the original Win-95 drive separate.
>
> I haven't done the install yet (one of these days...) but will
> eventually.  The tough part is whether even DSL (Damn Small Linux)
> can get X and Mozilla working in just 16 megs of ram.  If not, oh well.
>
> You didn't mention the specs of your machine, but I hope these ideas
> will help.
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. For everyone else that helped me before, thanks: I think DRI is
>      working, but my hardware (especially the bus) is just too slow.
>      Still got a good deal I think, though.
>      Now to get Linux on this new laptop of mine (Acer Aspire 5520-5912
>      from Wal-Mart: Turion X2 1.9 GHz 2 GB ram nforce 610M IGP
> w/Geforce
>      7000M integrated and...oh, yeah, vista and the m$ tax...)
>
> --- chip33az@netscape.net wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a fairly old laptop that uses a special cable for the CD-ROM 
>> (which I can't find).  I wanted to put Linux on it and it currently
>> has 
>> Windows 2000 installed.
>>
>> I thought about doing the netinstall from Debian, but wanted to try 
>> something different so I went to 
>> http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html and tried a Fedora 8
>> install.
>>
>> I ran the Gparted Distro first and that worked well and I was able to
>>
>> shrink my Windows partition.
>>
>> I then ran the Fedora install.  It did take quite a bit of time
>> (about 1 
>> 1/2 hours) just to get the OS installed.  It was even longer for the 
>> updates (and I thought yum was faster this release).
>>
>> I don't know if I would recommend this for an install every time, but
>>
>> without a CD/DVD it sure came in handy.
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