Nah, I'd give you a couple beers for it anyway. But chances are high I wouldn't do anything more with it than you are, so I'm sure someone else on the list could make better use of it. If my wife sees me bring another project home... Quoting Joshua Jore <moomonk at rogue.electricgod.net>: > Regarding the beer, yeah, so do I. It's worth a try anyway. Hey, how > about > it's yours if you can do something nifty with it. (the battery doesn't > work so it's corded only) > > Josh > > ___SIG___ > > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 joel at luths.net wrote: > > > That's too hardcore for me. And I value beer more than that... > > > > Quoting Joshua Jore <moomonk at rogue.electricgod.net>: > > > > > Yep, I did something similar. Since it only has a floppy, parallel > port, > > > serial port and 1200bps modem the task of getting something in was > > > pretty > > > hard. I ended up using a umsdos slack boot disk combined with the > paride > > > system to mount root on a parallel port superdisk drive. The > superdisk > > > had > > > Slack's fine zipslack distro on it. (yes, it's great for exactly > this > > > sort > > > of stuff). Given that I now had a fully operational system (talk > about > > > slow when your / is on the other end of an ancient parallel port) I > just > > > partitioned the 120mb hard drive and copied over what I wanted. I > don't > > > think I ever bothered with using the installer since that would make > too > > > many assumptions about how I needed everything. > > > > > > So... if someone would like a 4mb slack laptop I might give it up > for a > > > beer or two. I don't think I'll ever find a use for it now that the > BSD > > > machine is occupying my attention. > > > > > > Josh > > > > > > ___SIG___ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >