just a small correction.
it's http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Premeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
> Cody Harris wrote:
>
> > At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >> On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with:
> >> > Ok, scenario:
> >> > I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is "Pri DOS".
> >> > I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze
> >> > (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing
> >> > a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and
> >> > installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size.
> >> > It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive,
> >> > send my files over the network, and format without installing a
> >> > full version of Linux.
> >> >
> >> > Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i
> >> > need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk.
> >> >
> >> > Any other suggestions welcome!
> >>
> >> Hey, Cody,
> >>
> >> I'm not sure that I am reading your post correctly, so please help me
> >> out and forgive if I am way off....
> >>
> >> Are you trying to run Linux without installing to your hard drive, or
> >> to recover data off your hard drive, or what? I'm confused with your
> >> purpose, that's all. :-)
> >
> >
> > Recover data
> >
> >
> >> Since I am not sure what you want to do, you could take this for what
> >> it's worth.....
> >>
> >> Knoppix is designed to run off the CD-ROM drive. If this portable
> >> beastie is blessed with a CD-ROM drive, you could run that and never
> >> really have to use your hard drive for it. There are some
> >> caveats...and they would be big ones for you:
> >>
> >> Knoppix, at least a modern copy, is going to need lots of RAM. That's
> >> where all your important directories and files that need to loaded
> >> are put (like /home, for instance). It essentially divides up and
> >> uses your RAM memory as if it was your hard drive. Once you turn of
> >> your computer, all is lost (though you could opt to save configs to
> >> the hard drive so that you wouldn't have to re-config each time you
> >> boot-up...your choice, there.) If I read your post correctly, your
> >> laptop only has 48 MB of RAM. Did I? That's not enough for this. If I
> >> understood that your P1 refers to a Pentium Classic, a P233 MHz is
> >> going to be the bottom end and still be able to run KDE or Gnome. At
> >> least this is what I experienced on a test PC running a P233 with 128
> >> MB RAM, using Knoppix 3.2.
> >
>
> If ram is limited, you may want to take a look at
> http://www.linx-bbc.org and their verstion 2.1. It can run on a lot
> less ram and has all the essential tools you would need.
>
> Barry
>
>
>
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