Karl, glad to hear you had some success with Debian on your old laptop.
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:34:34AM -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> there is only 80 Mbyte for Linux. I have gcc and man and joe and the libc6
> library loaded. I think I will load g++ and g77, if I can find it again and
> compile it with the new libc...there is no .deb for g77.
I assume you have Debian 2.1 (slink) -- there should definately
be a g77 package there somewhere. There is on 2.2 (unreleased),
I have installed it here.
> This $50 laptop is now a useful tool for me while traveling. It has
> the ax25-utils so it can be used as a Ham Radio system too. My hat is tipped
> to the guys at Debian. Your efforts to keep the floppy Linux load alive is
> still in use in mid 1999. It will continue I hope for many years to come.
I'll pass your messages on to the boot floppy creators.
Cheers
Hamish
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