Philip Pemberton wrote:

>
>> 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 
>  
>

I downloaded the Slackware 10.1 ISO's and installed.  The machine is 
only 2 GB of hard disk (I remember back when that would seem like a lot, 
but it seems pretty paltry now) so I loaded as little stuff as I felt I 
could get away with.  Seems to work, although there are some minor 
problems.  But basically I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, so 
feel OK about it.  I just need to get the kinks worked out now.

> > 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 :)


The floppy drive is a plug-in sort of thing.  Looks like an octopus 
hanging off the laptop, but works well.  The whole arrangement is taking 
up the dining room table right now, and I suspect the Big Boss is gonna 
issue marching orders pretty quick on it.  :-(  She just doesn't realize 
how much enjoyment I get out of enduring  this pain. 

John
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