[olug] Small old laptop challenge

[Sam Tetherow]

The floppy is seen as a normal floppy, but the connect was proprietary.  
I can check, but I'm pretty sure I threw away the Sony CD drive (and 
connector) for this machine the last time I cleaned out my misc 
equipment boxes.

    Sam Tetherow

Abraham Serafino wrote:
> If it's not an IDE floppy interface you might need some drivers for it or
> you might have to recompile your kernel after you install.
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:36 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
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>>> What about an external CD drive?
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>> I imagine IBM made one, but I don't have one for it, and it almost
>> assuredly wouldn't be bootable.  Since this is a work owned laptop I
>> can't really ask the boss to buy parts for it either.  :-)  The floppy
>> interface appears to be some kind of parallel port since it has a
>> printer/floppy graphic by it.  Other than that it's got the docking
>> port, and the PC card slots.
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>> Maybe I'll e-mail the DeliLinux maintainer and ask if he has a floppy
>> install option.
>>
>> Bill
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