Re: Vim on really old Laptop (Slackware)
- From: floyd@xxxxxxxxxx (Floyd L. Davidson)
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:17:09 -0800
Josef Oswald <Ooswald_josef@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I typed that I could use *only* floopies for the install, didn't I?
Again I used this old version just because I could install it
using floopies, as this old "Compaq Contura Areo 4/25" doesn't
have a modem, a network card, or CD-Rom, so the choice for me
was only the floppy install.
As to Slack 3.3 being too old, for the purpose I have in mind,
reading and typing text with VIM, (no network needed) it would
serve my purpose well.
As you have discovered, using floppies and installing an
extremely old version of Slackware is not going to work.
I assume your laptop does have a serial port???? If not, that
can be worked around too.
What you do is get an adapter for the hard disk, and install it
into a regular desktop PC. With that hardware configuration,
you can install a modern Slackware on the disk and then move it
back to the laptop. Until you get something that will boot
properly, you may have to go back and forth with the disk
between the laptop and the PC a few times while you tweak
things.
You can install the entire system that way, or not. If the
laptop has a serial port, just install the bare minimum required
to get it running with the ability to set up a PPP connection
over the serial port, and then do the rest via a network
connection. Otherwise, just do it all by swapping the disk back
and forth until you get it right.
Regardless, forget about piece meal adding current binaries, or
even trying to compile source, on a system that old. There are
far too many compatibility problems.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@xxxxxxxxxx
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