[olug] Small old laptop challenge

[T. J. Brumfield]

Does Deli support a network install?

What about an external CD drive?

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, what a torrent of replies.  This Deli Linux looks cool, but how
> would I get it installed without a cd drive?
>
> I've got a Linux Unleashed CD from 94 that has an old version of Slack
> on it (yes I'm dating myself) that I'm sure I could get loaded, but
> honestly Linux wasn't exactly ready for primetime back then.  Maybe I
> can get a network card for it and do a network install.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jay Swackhamer <Jay at reboottheuser.com> wrote:
>> http://www.delilinux.de/
>>
>> For 486 or lower class machines, I've put Deli Linux on them to make
>> them useable, even with 24MB of ram.
>>
>> --
>> Jay Swackhamer
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>>
>> Quoting charles.bird at powerdnn.com:
>>
>>> That's what I was thinking, one with 2.2 or early 2.4 kernel
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 10:56:04
>>> To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [olug] Small old laptop challenge
>>>
>>>
>>> I would try slackware.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bill Brush wrote:
>>>> Ok, so I had a relic of an earlier age come across my desk a few weeks
>>>> ago, and I have this growing urge to try to do something with it to
>>>> make it useful.  It's a Thinkpad 701cs with the unique butterfly
>>>> keyboard.  Processor-wise it's a 486DX4-75, and it has 24MB of RAM.
>>>>
>>>> It has a PC-card slot, and I might be able to dig up an ethernet PC
>>>> card, and it has a floppy drive.  No CD drive though.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know of a distro that will run on this old beast?
>>>>
>>>> Bill
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