[wplug] setting up an old laptop

[Bryon Gill]

I found tom's rootboot very helpful in setting up old laptops to be 
useful; I also found the debian floppy installation helpful.    I got an old 
Epson 486/8mb memory to run debian, never got X to work but I did get doom 
to run once.  It was fine though for using emacs, links browser, pine, 
ssh, etc.

 

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Ben Beige wrote:

> I just got my hands on a old IBM thinkpad 701c it's a 486 w/ 16mb of ram, I 
> was wondering what would be the best way to get Linux onto it and how to 
> connect it to my home network or another Linux box as a terminal. as far as 
> I can tell it doesn't have a serial port, it dose have IR and parallel 
> thought the parallel port is also the floppy connector form the looks of 
> it. it dose have a Cirrus Logic PCIC compatible PCMCIA controller too 
> (according to windows 
> 95)  http://mdxi.collapsar.net/butterfly/tp701-specsheet.png  according to 
> this sheet it its 2 type 1 2 type 2 or 1 type 3 capable for PCMCIA if 
> anyone has a spare NIC i could get :) but I'd like recomendations on how to 
> get linuc onto this system and how to connect it to my home network
> 
> Ben Beige
> b.beige at zoominternet.net
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