On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Jon wrote:> I has just been given an old Toshiba CS100 with earliest pentium and 400mb
> of HD but only a floppy drive on it, its got Win3.1 which is funny to see
> again but gonna be cleared as soon as i stop messing with it. What I was
> wondering was could anyone advise what O/S would be good for this, I want a
> small usable *nix distro for it that i can transfer to it fom floppy.
> Connecting this to Winblows>i know that winblows allows pier-to-pier
> connections over serial and parellel ports to other winblows but is this
> easy do for connecting winblows to *nix???Have done exactly this with debian, only I used a PCMCIA network card and
did it off ftp.esat.net (ucd bandwidth is rather good).However, if you've another machine, look into this null modem cable jobby:http://rosebud.sps.queensu.ca/~edd/t100cs.htmlwhether you can connect that to direct cable connectionI've no idea.  You
could however, put the files onto windows, boot onto a ILUG BBC[tm] and
mount the fat32 partition.Easier/Quicker way is to get your hands on a PCMCIA nic.  Also makes the
maptop far more useful in the long run.Gavin
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