--- Duane Attaway [email protected] wrote:
I have several old laptops that could live a good life of xterminals.
Unfortunately, some don't have hard drives,
Try these floppy-based Linux distributions:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/linux-distrib-small.html
most have memory less than 64MB, and one is a 486 with 4MB. All can use a pcmcia ethernet card.
What do most people do with these? Are there distributions catering to these or do I have to build them myself?
Slackware and Debian both install in very little RAM and have a text mode installer. Slackware 7.1 even allows you to install most of the console Linux packages using floppies.
Or if you aren't going to be doing anything with them for a few months, you could always run Gentoo's installer now and start using them in February. :)
I'd hate throw them away. They use so little power, have well designed hardware, and look nice.
I forget the link, but someone has been using old 386/486 laptops as LCD "digital photo frames".
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