> I have just obtained an old clockwork-driven Toshiba T4400C laptop with a > 486 and ~200MB hard drive. Can anyone recommend a release of Debian to run > on this? There is no ethernet card, CDROM or PCMCIA slots so I figure I > will be installing it via SLIP/PLIP... > > Slan, > Cian
All the toshibas I've helped folks with, we just carefully took the machine apart, mounted the drive elsewhere, fed it Debian like a normal box, and then put it back. On one model the thing was so fussy about LILO we left a small DOS area with some diagnostic tools and (of course) loadlin and its kernel. But it worked fine once that was settled in. I mention this so that if you want to go that route, you don't have to do what we did: restore the dos setup from the drive image I was smart enough to make, so that we could go back to square 1 and try again. Backups Are Your Friend * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
