[Techtalk] Installing Linux on an older laptop

[Robyn Manning]

Hi

If your machine has a CD-Rom you could try Knoppix. Knoppix is a
bootable CD that loads into RAM without touching the existing hard
drive. It's great as a rescue CD also.

Robyn

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:36, txjulie at austin.rr.com wrote:
> Alvin Goats wrote:
> > 
> > The only one I know of that can do this is Slackware 7.1 (an older
> > version). Slackware 8.1 is not that friendly for such installs.
> > 
> > You will create a boot floppy, a root floppy (I recommend the color one)
> > and then about 22 'a' disk install floppies from the install CD. Install
> > the boot floppy, boot and then the color root floppy when requested.
> > After that, use fdisk to set the partitions. I gave an old Toshiba
> > laptop a 100Meg swap partition (100Meg swap + 24Meg RAM for an
> > "apparent" 124Meg memory system for X, StarOffice and ApplixWare). Type
> > 'setup' and then install the disks in order as requested. Make sure you
> > are ONLY installing the 'a' series disks.
> > 
> > The 'a' disk set has just enough in it to become functional enough to
> > connect to a tcp/ip network, a parallel port Zip drive, or if you have a
> > SCSI card (i.e. an Adaptec SlimSCSI) any SCSI device (includeing SCSI
> > CD-ROM drives ;) ). You can then bootstrap other devices to get your
> > files to install from. You should be able to limp along after that. :)
> 
> Where is it possible to get the diskette sets anymore?  I just
> installed ZIP 250 drives in all the machines in the house (except
> for this one, which has a ZIP 750 drive, and the kitchen computer
> which has no room for such a thing).  I'd like to be able to boot
> Linux on those drives in the event I need to something Linux-y
> without having to have separate partitions on them just for Linux.
> -- 
> Julianne Frances Haugh             Life is either a daring adventure
> txjulie at austin.rr.com                  or nothing at all.
> 					    -- Helen Keller
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