Also, as I think you know, some creative people have found a way to boot a cd-rom with grub using oldbios.img. I wish I could say that's what I meant, but I didn't Bruce B: if you read my last post, you will see that i finally did manage to get the drive working using Grub4Dos and your oldbios.img ...

Hi people. I finally managed to get this running. I couldn't get the Grub4DOS working using the tutorial, so I did a little digging and found that i could mount the oldbios.img as a virtual floppy drive and boot from it. (Really gotta look more into this grub thing - it rocks!) Anyway. I figured tha...

I was just thinking... My old laptop can't handle more than 64mb ram, and swapspace is pretty slow. Now, flashram is pretty fast, and i have an pcmcia->compact flash adapter lying around somewhere. While i am aware that flashram is worn, I do have a bunch of 64mb CF cards lying around, which i would...

your problem is that these old computers only has 16bit pcmcia, whereas modern pc's have 32bit. The new standard is refered to as "Cardbus", and there is no appearent way of telling the two apart, though sometimes the manufacturer writes it on the cover. You can use 16 bit it a modern comp...

Hi bruce.
It does't really work as i can only fit EITHER the diskdrive OR the CD.

I did try to copy the format.com onto the disk and format the harddrive with the /s swithch to transfer your bootprogram to c:
but alas it doesn't work.

any other ideas guys?

When i first installed linux on an old laptop I had to search for a long time for a network card that worked. See, older laptops - namely from that time when laptops had 64mb or less RAM - only had 16 bit pcmcia card slots. nowadays 32 bit pcmcia cards (called cardbus) are used. There is no visible ...

Hi. I am trying to install puppy on an old laptop that is just a little too old for supporting cd boot. It has got a slot that can be used for either cd or floppy. It is, however, not hotswappable and the computer has to be turned off before switching between them Therefore I cannot use the bootdisk...