Old version of BLAG for an old laptop

hansencomputers · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject:

I installed Puppy Linux 215 CE to the hard drive, and added grub to the mbr, so it boots up, no floppy or cd required. Then I upgraded (a complete clean install) to Puppy V4.00 (k 2.6.21.7). Same type install, and everything but sound is working fine.

I also tried Vector Linux , which seemed to install ok, but I switched back to Puppy.

I know the hardware is old. It is an older Compaq Presario laptop with an AMD k6 cpu. It could be as much as 10 years old.

The system has only 96MB RAM. I created a 192MB swap partition, and the rest (about 2GB) as ext2 (or ext3, not sure, and the laptop is not here).

My friend wanted something to access the internet (which is working great using a PCMCIA card). He also wanted a word processor. He was about to install WIN98, but I talked him into trying Linux.

john maclean · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 12:20 am Post subject:

berkbw · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:36 am Post subject:

Maybe - -

the CD size limit is a bump in the road - as every month, every year new hdwe pops up.

Maybe a new CD with only the hdwe drivers is needed, with an anaconda patch to ask for them, eh?

b-

NicePics13 · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

Got my hands on a Compaq Armada in rather good condition, PIII with 320 megs and a brand new harddrive installed.
Decided that Gnome had gone downhill since its marriage to Ubuntu so I installed BLAG 9002 - the best thing I ever did :D
No worries with the default install, the 2.4 kernel and Mozilla are just about the only packages I keep up2date.

noldrin · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject:

Gnome has been going downhill since they switched away from Graphical Midnight Commander and Sawfish.

NicePics13 · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject:

I actually started to build GNOME 1.2.4 on the latest Slackware - to relive the old magic. It didn't like gcc4 so I had to start patching and replacing system libs. A pain to get installed, but damn it's fast!

noldrin · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject:

I've given up on GNOME and moved on to XFCE. XFCE reminds me much more of classic X Windows but with some modern conveniences.

Personally I blame Ximian for the downfall of GNOME. Stupid monkey.

v0

noldrin · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject:

I would try BLAG 30K. It has some compatibility possibility with RHEL4.x so you might be able to get some software for it.

stevo32 · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:04 am Post subject:

For anyone looking for them, here are some old BLAG isos:
http://miku.ezbake.org/blag-isos/

BLAG 10000 is included. I'm going to see if I can find an old 10001 alpha I had.

SHA1SUM/MD5SUMs have been verified.

Thanks,
stevo32

stevo32 · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject:

Here's 10000.10003, which I've got labeled as "10001 alpha 3". It was made in April 2005 and seems to have quite a lot of updates. I confirmed that it passed the media check.

MD5SUM: 84763fcc0c78ff071eb32a87cdf564e8 BLAG-10000.10003.iso
SHA1SUM: ffd67f82a721207d9d46c56cf7de61518660fc76 BLAG-10000.10003.iso

http://miku.ezbake.org/blag-isos/BLAG-10000.10003.iso

Happy blagging,
stevo32

v0 · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:21 am Post subject: it works!

noldrin · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

You could try EPEL (Extended Packages for Enterprise Linux) I can't vouch for them, but they are worth a look.

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/EPEL/4/i386/

v0 · Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:27 pm Post subject: Re: it works! + review

There's an review (in Spanish by now) about how to rescue the 2755DVD notebook using BLAG3k:

http://sietecoyote.com/2009/03/28/como-rescatar-una-notebook-antigua-con-blag-3000/