I just charged the thinkpad for 30 mins and got about 1 second time out of it :P. So if I just buy a 10GB IBM 2.5" hard drive off eBay, it should work?

I need help getting the caddy off my hard drive to see if some of these hard drives off eBay will fit. How do I get it off ? Also, did you get a hard drive that said it would work with your exaxt version? I can find many 7xx hard drives, but no 755 ones. Will they still work?


EDIT - No worries, we got it out. Now I found some hard drives which will fit. Shall I risk getting the 20GB hard drive and it might not work .... well bear in mind it's only 1P for this hard drive. or a 6GB for the same price?

go ahead with the 20.if needed you can make a bootable partition that dosen't cause issues with bios limitations.i have a swap of ~120mb and the rest is / .even for as old as it is there shouldn't be any problems below 32gb.

Ok, I shall go for the 20gb.

Got a few questions though, you mentioned earlier that you installed slackware (or could) via floppy. How do I do that, I see a ZipSlack but that is 48MB. I have seen a parelle port to USB Converter, so maybe I can buy one of them - and install slackware off a USB data stick? Might work.

possibly.you would still need a boot floppy to start the installation.
the slackware package groups (and even the cd's) are composed of 1.4 disk images for a base install and network.debian is the same way.

ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/...0.1/bootdisks/
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/...0.1/rootdisks/
slack bootdisks:bare.i ,install.1 ,install.2 ,network.dsk ,and possibly pcmcia.dsk would be enough to get a system running and networked without a gui.

Thanks, and do I just place these on the floppy and insert bare.i first?

yep ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/...sks/README.TXT

Hum, the files are 1.4MB - my floppy disk is formated at 1.44MB. But yet when I try to copy the files to the floppy, it says there is not enough room. Any ideas?

EDIT: its ok, I wasnt using rawrite lol.

are you using windows or trying it from a linux gui??i used fedora and a consol to create mine.
http://slackware.com/install/bootdisk.php

lol.......that would do it......

Ok, i've managed to get into the install of Slackware, but I need to setup the partitons on it. There is no FDISK or CFDISK provided with teh disks I have. How do I set up the partitions now?

you should be able to run cfdisk from setup.1

the install.1 floppy you mean?

EDIT: I juts tried insatll.1 floppy in the floppy drive, and typed:

cfdisk

and fdisk

both come up with

cfdisk.bin: No such file or directory
fdisk.bin: No such file or directory

What shall I do?

odd....before running setup,there should be a screen saying something about "if you need to create partitions".cfdisk at this point should run without issues.

no, I don't get that screen at all. There is a quick error I can see - but not all of it. Somethign says Could not be found - not sure what it is though.