[RULE] Serial cable install

[C David Rigby]

If you decide to remove the hard drive then have a look at this webpage:

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/product.do?brandind=10&template=%2Fproductselection%2Flandingpages%2FonlinePublicationsLandingPage.vm&validate=true

IBM never throws anything away.  Here, you can enter the model number of
your thinkpad and choose "Display documents."  Look for the Hardware
Maintenance Manual for your system, which will include detailed
take-apart info for your TPad.

Caveat:  Unlike most 2.5 inch IDE drives, many of the IBM ones require a
jumper to be installed to be recognized as the master.  So, if your
desktop system will not recognize the drive, go back to www.pc.ibm.com
and look for the drive itself to get its specs and jumper pin
assignments.

Happy hacking!

CDRigby

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 23:52, Mike Cook wrote:
> I've had good luck with removing the HD and installing it in another system 
> (you will need an adapter if you use a desktop).  On a Thinkpad this is 
> easier said than done as the HD is a pain to remove/install.  Just make 
> sure you keep an eye on the lid latch and how it goes together.  You will 
> need a very minimal install with that small of a HD.  You might want to try 
> a mini distribution such as muLinux http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/.  It 
> installs under dos on a dos partition and can be cloned to a ext2 
> partition.  Also it works well on 486's with 8M of mem. and fits on 1-6 
> floppys depending on what you choose to install.  If you use mu it is 
> relatively painless to install via floppy.  Hope this helps.
> Mike Cook
> 
> 
> At 02:07 PM 6/10/03 -0600, you wrote:
> >I have an old laptop that I would like to use for very basic RH 8 
> >installation (so I can learn Linux while at work).
> >
> >It is an IBM 486sx Thinkpad, 8 MB RAM, running Win 3.1 on MSDOS 5.02 
> >(ouch!) with a monocrome LCD.  It has no CDROM drive, but it has a 3 1/2" 
> >floppy, serial/parallel cable ports, and a modem (don't know the baud... 
> >probably 9600)...  I believe it has just under 200 MB of harddrive total.
> >
> >I've not used Linux before so just want to use it to familiarize myself 
> >with commands (and take advantage of man/info pages).  It doesn't need any 
> >graphical interface (seeing its specs, you can see why :).
> >
> > >From the above options, what would you suggest I do to install RH?  I've 
> > never used serial-to-serial, or modem-to-modem before.  I understand that 
> > I would most likely benefit from a boot disk image.  I assume that 
> > bootnet.img wouldn't be what I want since I'm not using a network 
> > card.  (But who knows?  Maybe I do.)  If you could let me know, it would 
> > be great to get me started in setting up.
> >
> >Steven
> >
> >
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