[rescue] laptop drive adapter

[Kenneth Dunn]

I use to use Slackware 3.0 on a 170MB HDD. I think it is still
available the slackware site. Not the sort of thing you'd want
to put the Internet, but it works like a treat for a low end toys.


On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Scott Newell wrote:

> I've got an old 486 laptop at work (8MB ram, 200 MB drive, no nic, no
> slots) that I'd like to put a very minimal OS on (freebsd, linux,
> something).  The end result will hopefully be a small machine that can be
> shipped to subcontractors so they can test out some embedded hardware with
> GDB.  To that end, I need to get an OS on it!  My current plan is to stick
> the drive on a desktop and do the install and setup on a much faster machine.