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Hardware:<\/strong>
\nCompaq Presario 1622
\nPentium I MMX 266 MHz proc.
\n160 MB RAM
\nCD-ROM drive
\nPCMCIA Netgear wireless card<\/p>\n

Goal:<\/strong>
\nWindows 98 has consistently required re-installs, and up until this point it’s been blamed on the CD-ROM drive. Now, after a serious RAM error, chips have been swapped and this unit has begun the experiment of keeping old hardware useful and worthwhile. To that end, Knoppix<\/a> will be tested and run from the CD-ROM drive, and then installed on the hard drive. Damn Small Linux<\/a> was considered, however it has a problem with the particular Synaptics Touchpad that Compaq chose to use on this machine.<\/p>\n

Progress:<\/strong>
\nWith the 160 megs of RAM, Knoppix loaded flawlessly from the CD-ROM. I partitioned the hard drive into a 256 meg swap partition and a 2.9 gig main partition. The initial boot from the hard drive was a bit slow, but it looks like that’s because it’s a first boot. Wireless card is not detected. Hrm, perhaps PCMCIA is not fully supported. Also, things still seem extremely slow. Rebooting the machine from CD to attempt to access pcmcia there. And now I stumble across the warnings by Knoppix users not to sintall to the hard drive. Apparently, all sorts of things break when the hard drive installer is run.<\/i><\/p>\n

As the coffee shop is closing, and I’ve discovered that my wireless card isn’t supported by either Damn Small Linux or Knoppix, I’m considering putting Win98 back on the machine. There has to be a way to keep this old hardware functional, responsive (if not fast), and useful. :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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