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Topic: 11yr old laptop, How to install DSL to a 60 MHz laptop

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AwPhuch

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Posted: Jan. 18 2006,01:42

Does that laptop have a pcmcia slot?

Perhaps using a pcmcia cdrom to install after you boot with a floppy

Either that or get a 2.5" to 3.5" harddrive adapter and install to the drive in "frugal" mode that way

I recommend at least a 128-256Meg swap with only 20Megs ram

The boot floppy will activate the pcmcia cdrom and it will read the cd from there

Brian
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Posted: Jan. 18 2006,04:25

I have this same problem with an old toughbook. I have no onboard cdrom but I do have a working pcmcia cdrom for it. The bootfloppy.img boots fine but does not activate the cdrom. I don't think the image can boot from pcmcia cdroms, or am I mising something?

AwPhuch

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Posted: Jan. 18 2006,05:38

Well the last and final method is to pull the HD out of the machine..find you another machine (perhaps a tower) use a laptop to standard ide hd adapter, format/partition the drive, boot/install to drive..then put it back into the laptop of choice...yah a bit more work..but at least you "know" it will work

P.S. waaaaaahhhh...I want a toughbook!

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Posted: Jan. 18 2006,23:43

i've only got the .sys driver files for PCMCIA CD-ROM..... is there a way to load the drivers from a windows 98 start-up disk, then whale haveing the drivers still loaded, boot from the dsl boot disk?

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Posted: Jan. 19 2006,20:27

Try booing into DOS w/ the 98 startup disk, loading the .sys driver for CDROM, and use loadlin.exe (http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/) to start up DSL for the first time.
Once in DSL use the HD installer.

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