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


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