Comments on: Reviving an Old Computer http://coreythompson.com/2008/03/reviving-an-old-computer/ ...but I'm right! Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: MrCorey http://coreythompson.com/2008/03/reviving-an-old-computer/#comment-3368 MrCorey Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:57:48 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2008/03/03/reviving-an-old-computer/#comment-3368 I got the NIC! Yay! The driver module is not in the stock Debian kernel! Boo! I will perservere...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3368','MrCorey'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3368','MrCorey','I got the NIC! Yay!\r\n\r\nThe driver module is not in the stock Debian kernel! Boo!\r\n\r\nI will perservere...'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I got the NIC! Yay!

The driver module is not in the stock Debian kernel! Boo!

I will perservere…

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]]> By: mrcorey http://coreythompson.com/2008/03/reviving-an-old-computer/#comment-3361 mrcorey Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:12:33 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2008/03/03/reviving-an-old-computer/#comment-3361 Thanks for taking the time to comment, Brandon. Unfortunately, the fellow that I was going to get the old NIC from had a houseful of sickness last weekend, so we're going to try and do this for next weekend. I still think that doing a net install will be easier than trying to find a serial connect cable and installing through it. This will give me the time to try doing the net install floppy that I saw on the Damn Small Linux forum. DSL has a killer set of apps for such a small size. Can you imaging 100 times the apps of a standard Windows 95 install and 1/3 the size on the hard drive? Try and find a laptop that has at least a P-2 350mhz in it, so that you can run anything that you're looking for without too much slowness. A P-3 would be much better, of course.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3361','mrcorey'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3361','mrcorey','Thanks for taking the time to comment, Brandon. Unfortunately, the fellow that I was going to get the old NIC from had a houseful of sickness last weekend, so we\'re going to try and do this for next weekend. I still think that doing a net install will be easier than trying to find a serial connect cable and installing through it. This will give me the time to try doing the net install floppy that I saw on the Damn Small Linux forum. DSL has a killer set of apps for such a small size. Can you imaging 100 times the apps of a standard Windows 95 install and 1\/3 the size on the hard drive?\r\n\r\nTry and find a laptop that has at least a P-2 350mhz in it, so that you can run anything that you\'re looking for without too much slowness. A P-3 would be much better, of course.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thanks for taking the time to comment, Brandon. Unfortunately, the fellow that I was going to get the old NIC from had a houseful of sickness last weekend, so we’re going to try and do this for next weekend. I still think that doing a net install will be easier than trying to find a serial connect cable and installing through it. This will give me the time to try doing the net install floppy that I saw on the Damn Small Linux forum. DSL has a killer set of apps for such a small size. Can you imaging 100 times the apps of a standard Windows 95 install and 1/3 the size on the hard drive?

Try and find a laptop that has at least a P-2 350mhz in it, so that you can run anything that you’re looking for without too much slowness. A P-3 would be much better, of course.

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]]> By: Brandon http://coreythompson.com/2008/03/reviving-an-old-computer/#comment-3360 Brandon Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:55:10 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2008/03/03/reviving-an-old-computer/#comment-3360 Any updates? Seems like an interesting project. Hey, that thing is faster than my first computer (P133!) :P I'm actually thinking about doing something similar. I've always wanted a laptop for school use, but can't afford one. I'm thinking about buying an older one (not quite that old!) and loading some Linux on there, just to run office type apps.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3360','Brandon'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3360','Brandon','Any updates? Seems like an interesting project. Hey, that thing is faster than my first computer (P133!) :P\r\n\r\nI\'m actually thinking about doing something similar. I\'ve always wanted a laptop for school use, but can\'t afford one. I\'m thinking about buying an older one (not quite that old!) and loading some Linux on there, just to run office type apps.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Any updates? Seems like an interesting project. Hey, that thing is faster than my first computer (P133!) :P

I’m actually thinking about doing something similar. I’ve always wanted a laptop for school use, but can’t afford one. I’m thinking about buying an older one (not quite that old!) and loading some Linux on there, just to run office type apps.

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]]> By: MrCorey http://coreythompson.com/2008/03/reviving-an-old-computer/#comment-3351 MrCorey Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:34:04 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2008/03/03/reviving-an-old-computer/#comment-3351 I haven't yet. I did pop the hard drive from the Tecra into it to see if it would boot Windows 98 and it did get to a desktop, so that was a bit encouraging. I'm trying to get an old PCMCIA NIC card from an acquaintance, which I may have as early as tomorrow. With that, I should be able to a net install of Debian or FreeBSD from a floppy disk.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3351','MrCorey'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3351','MrCorey','I haven\'t yet. I did pop the hard drive from the Tecra into it to see if it would boot Windows 98 and it did get to a desktop, so that was a bit encouraging. I\'m trying to get an old PCMCIA NIC card from an acquaintance, which I may have as early as tomorrow. With that, I should be able to a net install of Debian or FreeBSD from a floppy disk.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I haven’t yet. I did pop the hard drive from the Tecra into it to see if it would boot Windows 98 and it did get to a desktop, so that was a bit encouraging. I’m trying to get an old PCMCIA NIC card from an acquaintance, which I may have as early as tomorrow. With that, I should be able to a net install of Debian or FreeBSD from a floppy disk.
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