Hi all -
My daughter's school has a number of donated IBM 600E laptops with 32M RAM
that are used in her class to help teach typing. Only one problem -- they
aren't turned on when the kids are using them. Obviously this is a pathetic
arrangement only slightly better than the kids using paper keyboards...
Anyway, they gave me one to check and see if there would be any possibility of
getting them working. Happily I have a compatible power supply -- the school
doesn't have any, but that's a different issue. When I plugged it in the
machine booted up to Win98 and explorer promptly crashed. Well that just gave
me an excuse to run Linux, which is what I was thinking anyway :-)
So I put in my Knoppix 3.2 disk and she booted right up -- after 10 minutes
:-( And unfortunately, it doesn't include KTouch which is the main program
I'd like to show them. So...
I'm looking for advice on a small, bootable distribution that might include
KTouch. A second option would be for me to get permission to wipe the drive
and install Linux, but I'm guessing I still might need something stripped down
to work well on this machine -- so any suggestions on this would be
appreciated as well. DamnSmallLinux (
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) looks
like it might be a good place to start, but I was hoping not to tinker too much...
Thx,
Jeff
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