Subj : Re: WinXP
To   : ALAN ZISMAN
From : JAY EMRIE
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 11:08 am

AZ> RF> I had a brainstorm this afternoon thinking about Jay's predicament
AZ> RF> with the Win95 USB laptop, and thought hey, maybe a Linux CD would
AZ> RF> allow him to use his USB flash drive.

AZ> JE> I'm a mite puzzled here. Admittedly I do not know Linux very well,
AZ> JE> but how would a Linux CD help me with a system that does NOT have a CD
AZ> JE> reader?

AZ> JE> Jay

AZ> RF> I have a USB multi-card reader here, so I tested it with all of the
AZ> RF> live CD distros I had.  Linspire saw it but would not read it.  The
AZ> RF> others, including Knoppix, MEPIS and Ubuntu, didn't find it.  Xandros
AZ> RF> saw and read it.  That's indicative of the challenge for Linux, IMO.

AZ>Robert is suggesting that if you first copy the \WIN95 folder from an 
install
AZ>CD onto the flash drive using a system that had both a CD drive and usable 
USB
AZ>ports. Next, boot the laptop to a live Linux CD (like Knoppix for instance)
AZ>you'll find that it will let you read and write to your laptop's FAT16 hard
AZ>drive AND provide USB support, so you can access the USB flash drive.

AZ>As a result, you could copy the contents of the flash drive onto the 
laptop's
AZ>hard drive, then reboot to DOS and install from there.

I have printed the below out for the future when I get the system.
Thanks.

Jay

AZ>The potential problem, I suspect, is that the older laptop probably has 
16-32
AZ>MB of RAM (I had one running W95A with 12 MB of RAM... it worked OK). If 
Linux
AZ>runs at all with that little RAM, it may be very unhappy! (Yes, I know Linux
AZ>can run in terminal mode with relatively small amounts of RAM, but Knoppix 
(et
AZ>al) wants to load a full graphical interface, and really wants as much RAM 
as a
AZ>comparable Windows system.

AZ>But it may be worth a try!
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