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["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

Sheesh, John!  You are having mailer problems, aren't you?


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• Subject: tlug: Giving an old pc a new purpose in life?
• From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
• Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:34:33 +0900 (JST)
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>>>>> "John" == John Seebach <jseebach@example.com> writes:

    John> I have an old laptop sitting around, and I'm trying to think
    John> of something creative and interesting that I can do with it.

Boot Windows.  Dial up provider.  Go to ftp.debian.or.jp.

1.  cd to /debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/

2.  download resc1440.bin, root.bin, linux, base2_1.tgz, drivers.bin,
    and loadlin.exe into some directory, say C:\LOADLIN

3.  C:\LOADLIN> LOADLIN linux /dev/ram rw initrd=root.bin

The rest is an exercise for the reader.

(No, I haven't done this; I know that what you need is surely in that
directory, I'm just guessing that those are the right ones.  I did
just hose my Sparc's Red Hat 4.1 installation in the process of trying
to install Debian -- forgot to silo after futzing with the root
partition, so I had to do something analogous to get Debian -- or any
Linux -- running.)

Note: no extra hardware.

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