Re: tlug: install to no-CD notebook

["Daniel Saito" <daniel@example.com>]

Couple of question Micheal,
Granted that you don't have a CD for that laptop to place large binary based
systems online you do need a medium for transportation to place it on
computer.  And I am sure you don't want to invest your time to put Microsoft
based products by hand disk by disk.  Not much to learn from that.  But to
answer your question, yes Linux will work on your Winbook. And yes,
slackware is the lean & mean.  Then you have other variants such as Debian,
RH5.x and etc.  But as far as I know all linux based spices will work.   So
first thing is first if you want to install linux on your PC.

1.) Does your laptop has PCMCIA Support?
2.) What type of Video Graphic chipset is in your laptop?  (It pops up
briefly when you power it up)

You two choices from here:
Pick an installation medium:

Via Internet and or CD or Serial

If you pick internet you need to get a PCMCIA modem card and or external
modem to connect to via internet and download couple disks (bootdisk and or
make them off of your CDs that you are getting).

If you go CD you could get one of those PCMCIA SCSI and a SCSI CDROM and
install it that way

If you use serial I am sure that there is a way I am sure someone could help
you on this list.. I never tried that so I don't know.

As for making the boot disk you run rawrite (make sure you are running MSDOS
in either dos 6.22 and or Windows 3.1 and or Win95  NT dos won't work.)

After getting everything to work you probably want Xserver installed
therefore find the video graphic chipset and match it to you list (no it
doesn't self detect it like Windows) although there is a probe program in
there.  But then again it fails with searching for it.. I have NeoMagic I
had to external source and install it later..

Well good luck.  Sorry if its quick and dirty.. I just didn't have a whole
lot of time on my hands to actually sitdown and write a whole primer for
installation.


Daniel Saito
daniel@example.com
http://www.digital-canvas.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Micheal Cooper <mecooper@example.com>
To: tlug@example.com <tlug@example.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 9:20 AM
Subject: tlug: install to no-CD notebook


>first a note: tlug is great, and I give my support, if only from afar
(since
>I am far away in Miyazaki)
>
>next, question:
>I came to Japan almost 5 years ago carrying a Winbook laptop (486sx 25MHZ 8
>MB RAM 200 MB HDD with 28.8 modem) running Win3.1. About six months ago, I
>borrowed a friend's floppies and installed a minimal W95 on it (I do own
>95E, 95J, 98J, MSDOS, Win3.1E, as well as NT Server and Workstation E, so I
>figured I am entitled to use someone else's floppies). It's okay for the
>time being. I have a two-PC network at home (both home-made), and I run
>multi-boot systems on both for study purposes: Linux (can't really use it
>yet), NTServer, W98J on server and W98J, NTWorkstation, and DOS (can't
>really use that yet, either) on client. I only use the notebook's Wordpad
>for my conversation classes, but my Linux-wise friend told me that such a
>laptop would be perfect for Linux study. Also, it would allow me to carry
>Linux around with me so that I could study at my in-laws house over the
>holidays and after preparing my lessons at work, so on and so on.
>
>So the gist of it is... how would I create a floppy set for Linux from a
CD?
>I recently ordered Red Hat 5.2, Slackware 3.6, and the one-CD version of
>Turbo Linux from Linux Mall. I also have a CD (from a Sobell book) for Open
>Linux lite and a set of CD's for RH5.1 from Linux Japan magazine. From what
>I have read, the leanest and lightest distribution is Slackware. Their
>system requirements even list 8 MB of RAM as enough. If Linux is
impossible,
>I will make the machine into a DOS notebook for studying DOS 6.22 and
taking
>notes in Intermediate Conversation classes.
>
>Please point me to the right references. Thank you.
>
>Micheal in Miyazaki
>
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