On 6 Mar, Russell Simmons wrote:
> I have an old Dell lap-top with a 386/math co-prosessor, a (whopping!)
> 60 mb hd, and 8 megs of ram. I would like to make it a linux box, for
> word processing, and to further my education of the os. I will have
> to install from floppy. I have read of some small installations, and
I had a friend ready to throw a working AST 386/8m laptop in the trash.
I took it to spare it's life and I was able to get Slackware 3.4 to
install nicely. I installed the A and N disk sets from diskette in
about 35m of the 72m hard drive. (I've added stuff like some of the
AP and most of the D disk sets since so I'm not sure exactly how much
the A and N series used). I doubt X would be useful but it runs console
stuff just fine. If you install Slackware, make sure to make a swap
partition with fdisk and activate it before running "setup".
I now use it from my bed to run "naim" to chat with friends and also
telnet to my main machine to read/reply to e-mail. Try doing THAT with
Windows (a blanket makes a TERRIBLE mouse pad!)
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Scott Felton WF3R
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Slackware Linux
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