[wplug] Super Upgrade

Kevin Squire gentgeen at linuxmail.org
Mon Apr 25 01:27:56 EDT 2005



Silly thought, but maybe you can check some of the local libraries and
see if they have any Debian 2.1 CDs.  I know that (Little-) Washington
Library has a collection of software CDs, including some old Linux
stuff.

Kevin


On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:09:52 -0400
Michael Semcheski <lists at immuneit.com> wrote:

> Hey everybody,
> 
> I've got this old IBM Thinkpad 365.  Its got 8Mb of RAM, 100Mhz
> pentium, and a 500MB hard disk, and a fast ethernet pcmcia card.  I'm
> trying to get something going with it.
> 
> When I acquired it, it had Windows 95.  Of course that wasn't useful,
> and I wouldn't be posting here if it had stayed Windows 95.  The trick
> with this thing is that it has a CD ROM (which you can't boot from)
> and no floppy drive.
> 
> I installed debian 2.1* (slink) from windows 95, and completely
> reformatted the hard drive.  It now boots to debian 2.1 via LILO, but
> I don't have PCMCIA working.
> 
> So here's the predicament.  I want to get that network card working. 
> I need to install PCMCIA support from a CD by any means available.
> 
> I have no idea how to do this, and I'm not sure what my strategy
> should be.  Support for such an old Debian is pretty hard to come by
> (lots of dead links).
> 
> Any thoughts?  I'm willing to go along a 'linux from scratch' path,
> but its not my preference.
> 
> Mike
> 
> *Because of the 8MB of RAM, it was difficult to find an install that
> would run from a RAM disk small enough.
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