We have had people come to install fests trying to get old machines to be useful. What resources did you find helpful? Is there a web site or two that is dedicated to this subject? John J. Trammell wrote: > Hi all: > > Just a quick note to let you all know about my success installing > Debian/woody on an old 386 laptop I got from my uncle. > > The trick I used to make the install work pretty much followed the > trick from the 4-MB-HOWTO, but I took it to the next step and used > a null-modem SLIP connection to upload the rest of the install media > to the laptop (no eth0). Even so the install b0rked (for reasons > unknown; out of memory perhaps?), but not before I had a bootable > system. After that, a little dpkg magic fixed everything up. > > I can hardly wait to install a 2.6 kernel on it! :-) > > J > -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net 952-929-1659 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list