Was: XFS Now Compaq flopper...

[Jerry McBride]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 02:22:48 -0500 "Richard R. Sivernell"
<res005ru at gte.net> wrote:

> Collins
>   
>   I have an older laptop coming, a compac. It has a 1 gig hd and can
>   have 40 meg memory. At this time I have no cdrom on the machine, my
>   son is sending it. & the cdrom with pcmia that I do have does not
>   support linux, on braindead stuff. My question is, with these
>   requirements can I still install gento on it. I am going to get a
>   larger hard disk 4-10 gig. I will run X and xfce on it. would like
>   just enough kde3 to run kdevelop & java development. The lan nic
>   10/100 pcmia is ok but I may not have the tcpip stuff on the machine.
>   Now the machine may turn out to be a big waste of time too, just do
>   not know at this time. It is inroute now.
> 

What model Compaq?

As for unsupported pcmcia IDE cdroms... the only hitch I've come across is
some of the older units not being able to read cdr or cdrw. 

As for running kde3 or portions there-of on 40meg... good luck. :')

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