Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Most of the time, I find that the batteries are going
True, but a laptop makes a good low-power server, appliance or terminal:
- Hook a Drobo to it, and suddenly it's a media server for your house.
You just saved $200 by not having to buy a Droboshare.
- Does it
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Bart Schaefer wrote:
I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800
Sorry, thinko. I did of course mean HP.
What are you planning to do with it?
Give it to a child.
(I still think the pop-out mouse on that Omnibook is far
I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it
going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some
then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI,
I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot
floppy. Any suggestions?
Bart Schaefer wrote:
I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it
going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some
then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI,
I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot
Bart Schaefer wrote:
I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it
going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some
then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI,
I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot
2.1's support ends in a couple months.
The last time I tried to put a Linux on an obsolete box, it was on a
computer with only 80MB of RAM. Pick an old enough distribution to
fit that, and I had all sorts of problems getting a PCMCIA LAN card to
work.
If I had got it to work, it would
At Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:09:47 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it
going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some
then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI,
I think)
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