Re: [RULE] Serial cable install

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 10 June 2003 04:07 pm, Steven Fullmer wrote:
> I have an old laptop that I would like to use for very basic RH 8
> installation (so I can learn Linux while at work).
>
> It is an IBM 486sx Thinkpad, 8 MB RAM, running Win 3.1 on MSDOS 5.02
> (ouch!) with a monocrome LCD.  It has no CDROM drive, but it has a 3
> 1/2" floppy, serial/parallel cable ports, and a modem (don't know the
> baud... probably 9600)...  I believe it has just under 200 MB of
> harddrive total.

I've done this. ;)
It wasn't much fun, but it worked. I have an old Zeos notebook with 8M of 
RAM, and an 80MB harddrive.

Details here:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/rule-list/2002-05/msg00117.html
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/rule-list/2002-05/msg00071.html
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/rule-list/2002-05/msg00105.html

Follow the threads on the last two links, they contain a lot of info.

If you need more help, just yell, and I'll see what I can remember.  I did 
this install over a year ago. I used a null modem cable and did a serial 
port point to point connection with another machine running an http 
server. As it turned out, in my case, the small disk was the biggest 
problem. You should be OK with 200MB. 

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