Old Laptop Distro???

[Javier Hernandez]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> I listen avidly to the new distro's that abound.  I have a question:
> I have an old compaq armada (4131T) with 80 MB of RAM and a 4 GB drive.  It 
> will not boot from the CD.  I want to set it up to X into a faster machine. 
> What distro should I put on it?
> I gather that I need to, at least, start with a 2.4 kernel (2.6 will not fit 
> on a floppy.)  It runs 802.11B and needs to pickup that card.  It does not 
> have cardbus but the old PCMCIA 16-bit slot.  There are no USB connections.
> I was thinking of slack but is there a better way?  All I really need it to 
> be is an X-terminal.
> (A suggestion or two on HOW to get it done would be helpful also.)

Hi Alma,

I have had an Armada 4131T some time ago.
That was the time of Openlinux 1.3 
}:)

My 4131T have not CDROM unit.
I had a PCMCIA SCSI CDROM which I used for installation. I booted from floppies
and I used the PCMCIA CDROM for the installation.

I guess you can get a distro with install floppies; boot from floppies
and use your CDROM to perform the installation.

Best regards,

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