[Gllug] Almost but not quite

[Darran D. Rimron-Molloy]

Slackware is your friend!  I did a 16meg laptop with a PCMCIA nic and
downloaded the "Needed" bits, lots of floppies, but it worked a charm!

I still use the machine now... it's currently on a (virgin install) of
slackware 8

	-Darran

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk
> [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of George F.Saxby
> Sent: 23 January 2002 14:22
> To: gllug
> Subject: [Gllug] Almost but not quite
>
>
> Hi,
>  After what seems an age I managed to get Linux on my
> venerable old thinkpad
> 760ED. I did it by using a pcmcia boot disk from deadRat
> 6.2.& FTP the rest
> 18hours worth for 800Mb  I did try SuSe who required a
> minimum of 50+Mb of
> RAM for the same task & refused to go on with less. Debian
> Potato said yup we
> can do that provided you supply some parameters for the
> Xircon pcmcia card
> tulip driver I gave it what windows had used for memory & irq
>  which it
> promptly spat out & refused to go further.
>
> 	Has anybody else got a tried & proven method of net
> (internet/ local ) using
> a distro with floppy / pcmcia access only.
>  TIA
>
> to all who chucked in their 2c on PHP & MySQL thanks but I
> passed the buck
> which means I can actually go and browse the books you
> recomended rather than
> ordering blind Thanks again.
>
>
> --
> Bandiera tuxa trionfera,
> Evviva il penguin e la liberta
>
>                George F. Saxby
>
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