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Old 10-10-2003, 12:48 PM   #1
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Fresh install on Laptop w/ NO cdrom?


I am trying to get Slackware 9.1 installed on an old P100 w/ 24mb or ram, NO cdrom. I have two pcmcia nics availible, a generic old 10mb that I had working in dos on this laptop. Looking at this cards driver package I don't see linux drivers but I do see scounix and it has packet driver stuff and Ndis stuff (I really don't know what all that means.) But the other card is a Linksys pcmpc100 that I would borrow from my other laptop for the install. So basically how do I do this I have tried and when I try to install the "Network" it doesn't find it then says to ALT-F2 and run "modprob en io=0x360" because I may need to set up the driver manually. But modprob is not a recognized command at this point (btw, steps so far are: Bootdisk, Rootdisk 1 and 2, pcmcia disk, then I'm at Network disk) I have to get the network up and running so I can install via NFS?

Second problem is I haven't used linux exept for a brief stint with Redhat about 3 years ago.

If anyone could see to help me out that would be great, I really need to install it NFS and I don't want to invest any money into this junk laptop, it's just for fun.

PS: will most "win9x" programs run under xwindows? I only ask because I have a program that this laptop is eventually intended far (to program a fuel management computer in my car) and it's a 9x program.

Thanks and sorry for being so long winded!
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Old 10-10-2003, 02:39 PM   #2
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PS: will most "win9x" programs run under xwindows? I only ask because I have a program that this laptop is eventually intended far (to program a fuel management computer in my car) and it's a 9x program.
You can try to run it with Wine (the windows emulator), but there's no guarantee it'll work.
 
Old 10-13-2003, 09:51 PM   #3
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No one can install Slack with out a cdrom or an NIC that is supported by default?!?
 
Old 10-14-2003, 08:32 AM   #4
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Yeah you can do that. But not over network

First you need a bare.i or another bzImage compatiabLe with your Laptop. Just check sLackware FTP sites and downLoad the proper version.

After that. Boot with that diskette and type-in these commands

mkdir -p /dos
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dos
cd /dos
mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0
mkdir /INSTALL
mount -o loop /dos/slack91_1.iso /INSTALL

By the way I'm assuming that you made 9.1 ISO images and they are in root foLder of your DOS drive.

After that run the setup and teLL the InstaLLation program /INSTALL directory.


By the way. I'm not sure but there must be a NFS-InstaLLation section. But the server aLso must be a unix-cLone. To connect to Windoze systems you need samba. And samba isn't incLuded whiLe booting from a FLoppy Disk

Last edited by leash; 10-14-2003 at 08:47 AM.
 
Old 10-14-2003, 10:02 PM   #5
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How will it install... the laptop is an old P100 w/ 24mb ram... there is barely enough room to fit the ISO (I think) much less also install to it... and I wouldn't be able to repartition the drive that way to take advantage of EXT3 or any linux file systems right?

i guess this is hopeless
 
Old 10-15-2003, 12:35 AM   #6
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You can get Linux on this thing, but it won't be easy. You'll have to create the floppy disk install sets that will detect your nic cards (including PCMCIA support) and do a network based install. You can also pre-copy the base system files on to another partition on the laptop using another network aware OS (this is what I do with my CDROM-less P120 laptop, but it has a 10 Gig hard drive, Win98 and 3 different Linux distro's currently installed on it!). You could even get the base files installed via "zipslack" using a parallel port zip drive. (done that too).

I wouldn't recommend any of this as your re-introduction to Linux. Try to put it on a more modern machine first, then do the old-laptop thing as an "advanced exercise".

24mb is lite for running an X-windows based GUI. Even running the older XF86-version3 servers and a lightweight window manager like Fluxbox, the computer will start thrashing to it's swap partition as soon as you open any good sized application (don't even try Mozilla!). A command line shell will run great on this machine however, remember this isn't MS-DOS the Linux command line is very powerful.
 
  


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