From: Mats Olsson <plan9.meo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] Reviving Old Hardware.
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 23:34:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEj9f0KQa82jCGt7nZ7ZS+dPv2LiTxO0PRXfMpxprWz+S=y02g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi guys,
Talking about digital archaeology. I tried to install Plan 9 from a cd
on my Dell 500H (something). That laptop came with an attachable
floppy drive, cd rom and a cdrw but it was as I remembered the drives
are all dead but the machine is loaded with Watt OS 5. A linux distro
that has a pretty small footprint as regards to memory. Originally it
had a whooping 128 MB of RAM and I installed another 128 MB RAM
module so it has now 256 MB of ram. The CPU is a Pentium III and it
has worked faitfully and hard for many years. It was the top of the line
of it's time It would be nice to install Plan 9 on it but the only way into
the machine now it ethernet. Would that bepossible? (I guess so but
I haven't found any docs on it) My prior concern is that it has a PCMCIA
ethernet card (cardbut) So, then if ever possible how? If you have any
ideas I would be delighted to hear since it's a shame that a so wellbuilt
laptop should just be lying there unused.
Yours Truly,
Mats
Mats
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