UNetBootIn

[Mike Storke]

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 at 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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