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          John Nall <jwnall@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hopefully I can now bootstrap to 
> the point of putting an OS on there (some variation of Linux that will 
> work on this particular machine)

I'd try Slackware 10.1 or Fedora Core 3 if the machine is fairly recent. I've
got Slack10.1 running on my Toughbook, which is a Pentium 133 with 32MB RAM
and a 3GB HDD (anyone got a spare 5GB+ 2.5" IDE laptop hard drive?).

Xfce is quite nice on low-end hardware. The newer versions of KDE are dire on
anything sub-1GHz, same goes for GNOME.

> and then access the internet and update 
> the bios so that it will allow me to boot from CD-ROM and not have to 
> use the floppy.

Um.. You'll probably find that you need to run the BIOS updater from raw DOS,
so you'll need a floppy drive for that :)

Later.
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