[frgeek-michiana] Re: Testing old Compaq laptops
- From: mdcsystems@xxxxxxxxxxx (Mike Cook)
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:13:48 +0000
Thanks
I did manage to find a few floppy's laying around so I'm set for now. I'm sure
we can use them for other purposes though.
Mike
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Lloyd Loring <LWLoring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> How many 1.44 diskettes do you need? I have over 220 lightly use
> re-formatted and zeroed out that can go to a good home, plus almost
> 75 brand new ones. I can bring them to the warehouse Tuesday if you
> wish.
>
> Lloyd Loring
>
> At 5:38 PM +0000 2/18/08, Mike Cook wrote:
> >I'll have to round up some decent floppy disks. If I can't find any
> >the images we need are less than 1.44M each so downloading them
> >wouldn't be a problem.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >menuetOS
> >http://sourceforge.net/projects/menuet/
> >
> >1-disk, 2-disk
> >http://natld.berlios.de/download.htm
> >
> >DSL
> >damnsmalllinux.org/
> >
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Can you bring some likely candidates from among the ones you mention to
> >> try on Tuesday? Or, is it more convenient to download them and burn them
> >> to floppy or CD at the warehouse?
> >>
> >> For testing purposes, we probably don't need X. However, a photo of an X
> >> desktop running on one of the laptops might be impressive on the Ebay
> >> auction.
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> Mike Cook wrote:
> >> > We could try MenuetOS it has a gui and runs from a floppy. We
> >>might also try
> >> 1-disk X, a floppy based Linux x windows system. Both should run on
> >> 16-32M.
> >> DS-Linux also will run on 16M though we might need a boot floppy.
> >>Puppy needs
> >> at least 32M although you might need a swap partition. I'm sure
> >>Slack or Debian
> >> would also work but it would be a struggle to get X running with that
> >> small
> >> amount of memory. Do we have a model number on these laptops? If
> >>so we might
> >> find additional info on Google. I'm sure we can find something to
> >>test them and
> >> make them look pretty.
> >> >
> >> > Mike
> >> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >> > From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> >> Mike or Goose:
> >> >>
> >> >> Kevin wants to test the Compaq laptops in the server/storage room next
> >> >> Tuesday, before putting them on Ebay. As I recall, the laptops don't
> >> have
> >> >> much memory, maybe 16-32MB. I'd be surprised if any have 64MB.
> >> >>
> >> >> What will install on these extremely low resource laptops to test them?
> >> >>
> >> >> I believe we could try older Slackware or Debian releases,
> >>possibly an older
> >> >> Vector Linux, without X-Windows.
> >> >>
> >> >> Second, I'm not sure whether we can get these laptops to boot off CD.
> >> >>
> >> >> From the official Slackware site (current release is 12.0):
> >> >>
> >> >> Slackware Linux doesn't require an extremely powerful system to
> >>run (though
> >> >> having one is quite nice :). It will run on systems as far back
> >>as the 486.
> >> >> Below is a list of minimum system requirements needed to install and
> >> run
> >> >> Slackware.
> >> >>
> >> >> * 486 processor
> >> >> * 16MB RAM (32MB suggested)
> >> >> * 100-500 megabytes of hard disk space for a minimal install
> >> >> * 3.5" floppy drive
> >> >>
> >> >> Additional hardware may be needed if you want to run the X
> >>Window System at
> >> >> a usable speed or if you want network capabilities.
> >> >>
> >> >> Tom
> >> >>
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