Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:14:18 -0500
From: greg ehrendreich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Just got a 50ct
I just got a 50ct from my sister. Stock, no upgrades. Pretty cool.
But it comes sans floppy, sans cradle, (but it does have the headphone
adapter...). With working (though kinda short life-span) battery and AC
adapter. My landlord has a 110, with a cradle, but also no floppy. The
cradle is not backwards compatible, of course.
anyhow, I pretty much have two generations of these guys to play with,
if I really knew what to do with them. Anyhow here's where I've
(barely) gotten so far with the 50:
I can't get it to install the drivers for my Belkin 802.11b card
(f5d6020 ver.2), or run a hell of a lot of anything actually. I think
the 95 install is whacked and there really isn't any way to fix it, far
as I can tell. Just tells me that I'm missing .dll's every time I try
to do anything.
I'd like to just install linux onto it, but all the instructions I can
seem to find online use a boot floppy.
I have the following assets to work with:
3com megahertz (3ccfe574bt) lan pc card and dongle
CF I/II adapter and about a gig of CF cards
Any suggestions for what the best way to go about attacking this
sucker? Can I install an OS off of a CF card? Some DSL-derivative maybe?
Alternative question: If I were to spend any money at all, should I?
Can I buy a floppy for it somewhere? Would that help? Does it matter?
Thanks in advance for any help.
-greg
