I installed debian on an old total peripherals 486dx4100 - no cd rom.
I used base floppies ,installed samba and then used dselect through a network
connection to my other pc with a cdrom.
Everything works fine - pcmcia, modem , touch mouse pad in X
(X was the hardest thing to configure)
Lappie cos
I installed debian on an old total peripherals 486dx4100 - no cd rom.
I used base floppies ,installed samba and then used dselect through a network
connection to my other pc with a cdrom.
Everything works fine - pcmcia, modem , touch mouse pad in X
(X was the hardest thing to configure)
Lappie co
This depends alot on what you wan't to use it for. My Compaq Armada has a 850
MB HD, which is plenty for my use ( although an extra gig, never hurts :-).
It's an 75 MHz Pentium processor with 16 MB RAM, enough for fvwm, XF4 and
emacs. I tried using gnome on it, but that was simple too much for i
> >About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
> > (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
> > Linux on.
> >
> >Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
> > learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up
> > getting everything to work on it.
> >
> >
This depends alot on what you wan't to use it for. My Compaq Armada has a 850 MB HD,
which is plenty for my use ( although an extra gig, never hurts :-). It's an 75 MHz
Pentium processor with 16 MB RAM, enough for fvwm, XF4 and emacs. I tried using gnome
on it, but that was simple too much for
> >About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
> > (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
> > Linux on.
> >
> >Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
> > learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up
> > getting everything to work on it.
> >
> >
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:10:09PM +, John Miskinis wrote:
>About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
> (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
> Linux on.
>
>Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
> learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up
aptop with a builtin CDROM, and
your life will be a bit easier.
John
From: Kent Pirkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Budget Laptop for Linux?
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:29:30 -0500
I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on.
A lot of t
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:10:09PM +, John Miskinis wrote:
>About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560
> (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with
> Linux on.
>
>Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to
> learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended u
get a laptop with a builtin CDROM, and
your life will be a bit easier.
John
>From: Kent Pirkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Budget Laptop for Linux?
>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:29:30 -0500
>
>I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:29:30 -0500
Kent Pirkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
KP> I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on.
KP>
KP> A lot of the big names are making low-end consumer laptops
KP> in the $1000-$1400 range like the IBM Thinkpad iSeries, the
KP> Compaq K6 laptops, etc. F
I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on.
A lot of the big names are making low-end consumer laptops
in the $1000-$1400 range like the IBM Thinkpad iSeries, the
Compaq K6 laptops, etc. From the Laptops on Linux page, it
looks like some folks have had problems getting some of these
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:29:30 -0500
Kent Pirkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
KP> I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on.
KP>
KP> A lot of the big names are making low-end consumer laptops
KP> in the $1000-$1400 range like the IBM Thinkpad iSeries, the
KP> Compaq K6 laptops, etc.
I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on.
A lot of the big names are making low-end consumer laptops
in the $1000-$1400 range like the IBM Thinkpad iSeries, the
Compaq K6 laptops, etc. From the Laptops on Linux page, it
looks like some folks have had problems getting some of thes
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