Regarding the beer, yeah, so do I. It's worth a try anyway. Hey, how about
it's yours if you can do something nifty with it. (the battery doesn't
work so it's corded only)

Josh

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On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 joel at luths.net wrote:

> That's too hardcore for me. And I value beer more than that...
>
> Quoting Joshua Jore <moomonk at rogue.electricgod.net>:
>
> > Yep, I did something similar. Since it only has a floppy, parallel port,
> > serial port and 1200bps modem the task of getting something in was
> > pretty
> > hard. I ended up using a umsdos slack boot disk combined with the paride
> > system to mount root on a parallel port superdisk drive. The superdisk
> > had
> > Slack's fine zipslack distro on it. (yes, it's great for exactly this
> > sort
> > of stuff). Given that I now had a fully operational system (talk about
> > slow when your / is on the other end of an ancient parallel port) I just
> > partitioned the 120mb hard drive and copied over what I wanted. I don't
> > think I ever bothered with using the installer since that would make too
> > many assumptions about how I needed everything.
> >
> > So... if someone would like a 4mb slack laptop I might give it up for a
> > beer or two. I don't think I'll ever find a use for it now that the BSD
> > machine is occupying my attention.
> >
> > Josh
> >
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> >
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