Thanks to all for their opiniopns & offers of help. The DOS box would be a great idea if I didn't plan to work on this 1/3 @ home, 1/3 from my apartment in Minneapolis where I live on alternate weeks and 1/3 in the air in between. (Nobody has a better excuse for a lightweight laptop than I.) I'd be happy to unplug the existing drives in a Pentium rusting downstairs & put in a new one. (Why doesn't anybody sell 'nix as a hard drive that you can just plug in, and have it do all its config w/o sweating teh CD, which 'd be available for backups?) I may yet go the DOS box route, but would have to commit where I'd do it. Maybe unix without networkign is an oxymoron but I didn't list it as a priority. In fact, my 2400 isn't a very good corporate citizen @ my current employer, since I don't have a Token Ring card for it. (Not that those lovable fascists who chose a Blue-only net would allow a non-NT client anyway.) And my apartment is without phone (cell only), so home DSL is the closest I'd get to the net. Reason to restrict 'nix to a home-only machine, or use the 2400. I used to be an interrupt, memory map and IO address expert on pre-PNP X86 boxes, but delighted how quickly that's receeded from (painful) memory. Given a pretty good knowledge of X86 hardwrae issues, and some guess about their analogues on the Mac, I wonder how long listas think their various solutions might take me to get minimally implemented on the 2400. ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Need help from a real person? Try. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- Dr. Bott | 10/100 Ethernet for your 2400 is finally here! MPC-100 | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/mpc100.html> NineWire | If they are cool enough to host this list... Digital Solutions | ...you should check them out! http://www.NineWire.com/ Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>
