Re: [newbie] Install on a 486 Laptop

[Ashley Moore]

Thanks for the Tip, Mark.

I still want to know if the 'boot.img' disk will allow me perform the
install from the parallel port ext. CD.

Ashley Moore


                                                                                       
                            
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Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Ashley,
>
> I would be very, VERY surprised if you were able to get Mandrake 7.0-7.1
> installed on that laptop. That is old equipment and I would venture to
say
> that most, if all the hardware in that machine is not at all supported by
> these two distributions. About the only thing you might get running on
> there is Windows 9x.

I had 7.0 running on my Toshiba T4500C - 486dx40/540mb/16mb for a while.
Pretty sluggish when compared to my Pentium 120!! But it did work.

My work around was to copy the install cd onto another hdd. open the
case and
using a fudged connector, ran the unstall from the 2nd hdd.

It was purely an experiment and for my part only for the hell of it.

What I have done since with that beastie is reinstall Windows 3.1, trim
out all the fluff and useless stuff so I can use it to transfer data
place to place.

However I agree with Tom, not a very useful Linux machine in todays'
world.

Cheers

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