On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:53:01 -0700, me lyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I _love_ Debian... and I have a Thinkpad 760ED from the real old > days just sitting there...
I have a 760CD that I booted into linux once using Knoppix (mine has a working drive). It was extremely slow, but a lot of that was the CD drive (2x I think) so I imagine it would go pretty well on an HDD. There's a "screenshot" of the poor thing running fluzbox here: http://uug.byu.edu/view_screenshot.php?id=91 > It currently has Win98 installed (it boots and runs). If Debian doesn't turn out well you might want to be able to put '98 back on the thing, so make a full backup of the disk before anything else. There's been some discussion here about backing up raw disks. I'd recommend just using dd, someone else (or the man page) may have suggestions about the best way to use it. Something like 'dd if=/dev/hdb of=backup.img' only you'll want to specify a block size so it goes faster. One trick I learned recently for making the backup compress better is to use dd to make a file on the partition that's just full of zeros, and then delete that file. This will get rid of old deleted fragmented data you don't want. Something on the order of 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/thinkpad && dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/thinkpad/zeros.000 && rm /mnt/thinkpad/zeros.000 && umount /mnt/thinkpad'. Of course fat32 has a file size limit of 2GB or something so if you have more free space than that you'll need to make multiple files. Good luck! -- Andrew Jorgensen ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
