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...)
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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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