Re: linux for old laptop?
- From: Chris Cox <notccox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:30:02 -0500
peter wrote:
I have an old (10 years?) laptop toshiba protege 3110CT that has no CD-ROM.
The hard disk has no OS on it. The only obvious way to install anything on
it is floppy drive. Or install something from floppy that enables the
built-in USB or network port, then use those ports to continue installation.
Removing the hard disk is too hard. There is no hard disk door. I'd have to
take the entire laptop bottom apart, but I'd rather not.
If I want to put linux on it, which version is likely to support the
built-in ethernet, USB, or PCMCIA ports? I don't think toshiba has linux
driver specifically for this laptop. So I need a version of linux with large
numbers of plug-and-play drivers.
64M ram
6G hard drive
PCMCIA port
USB port
parallel port
PS/2 mouse port
modem
ethernet
floppy drive
The reason I want to install linux on it is so I can sell it. I think it may
be worth $50. Without OS, and without an easy way to install OS on it, it
may be worthless.
You can try things like SUSE 6.3/6.4 (for example)... or Red Hat 5,
anything of that generation. There are some special lightweight distros
like DSL and Puppy Linux that might work (better because newer). Also,
these devices are worth something in that they consume less power than
most things... so they are decent as Linux front end units.
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