gavin mccullagh ilug_gmcfiachraucdie tue 27 aug 2002 jon wrote given old toshiba cs100 earliest pentium 400mb hd floppy drive got win31 funny see gon na cleared soon stop messing wondering could anyone advise os would good want small usable nix distro transfer fom floppy connecting winblowsi know winblows allows piertopier connections serial parellel ports winblows easy connecting winblows nix done exactly debian used pcmcia network card ftpesatnet ucd bandwidth rather good however youve another machine look null modem cable jobby httprosebudspsqueensucaeddt100cshtml whether connect direct cable connectionive idea could however put files onto windows boot onto ilug bbctm mount fat32 partition easierquicker way get hands pcmcia nic also makes maptop far useful long run gavin irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie tue 27 aug 2002 192650 0100 ilug got crappy laptop