I am not terribly interested in putting mandrake on it. it just sounded interesting. I tried to read an iso file on it today. OOPS! Ran out of vhard drive space. No kidding, but all is well now. I use the laptop mainly to wright notes about what I had done in my garden etc..
On 2 Jan 2005 at 12:37, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb > > hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. > > Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my > > butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd > > booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my > > laptop. The laptop won't boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the > > iso file that wasn't seen on this junk. Figure that one out. > > > > On 2 Jan 2005 at 11:07, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately > > > installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning > > > touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all > > > work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya > > > just have to love Mandrake and linux. So the moral of the story is if you > > > have a laptop that was a problem with the touchpad, put 10.1 on it. Happy > > > New Year everyone. > > > -- > > > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > 512 is pretty small. But have a look at Mandrake Mini. With a little pick and > choose you might get a usable system on that small a drive. Small...ha I > remember when I had to pay an extra 200 US for a 400mb drive as opposed to > the standard 250mb drive. Time flies . HTH > -- > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > >
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