[olug] Small old laptop challenge

[Abraham Serafino]

If it's not an IDE floppy interface you might need some drivers for it or
you might have to recompile your kernel after you install.

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:36 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > What about an external CD drive?
>
> I imagine IBM made one, but I don't have one for it, and it almost
> assuredly wouldn't be bootable.  Since this is a work owned laptop I
> can't really ask the boss to buy parts for it either.  :-)  The floppy
> interface appears to be some kind of parallel port since it has a
> printer/floppy graphic by it.  Other than that it's got the docking
> port, and the PC card slots.
>
> Maybe I'll e-mail the DeliLinux maintainer and ask if he has a floppy
> install option.
>
> Bill
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