Ashley,
There's always that chance that it will install. Give it a try and see
what happens.
Mark
Ashley Moore wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> John Rye
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>Laptop
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> 10/26/2000
> 02:12 AM
> Please
> respond to
> newbie
>
>
>
> 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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