Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:17:27 +0200
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Just got a 50ct
greg ehrendreich wrote:
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.
Well, you can also use the DOS program loadlin.exe to boot a linux
kernel from a DOS partition.
As long as your Win95 installation can still be used to boot into pure
DOS, you are mostly set.
You can find some info on my web page,
http://home.hccnet.nl/pr.nienhuis/MDLinux.html#PREPARATION
I used this trick to install VectorLinux too.
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?
If it's a hobby, by all means YES.
If you want to do something useful with it, well maybe not.
Philip
