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MobileNeophyte
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Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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 Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject: Sony Vaio PCG-Z505JE |
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Its a:
P3 500Mhz
192mb ram (MAX)
9.0gb HDD
12.1" XGA screen (1024x768)
Intel 8255Xbased ethernet
NeoMagic 256AV+
usb1.0
firewire
using a Liksys wireless g wlan card (wpc54g)
Now for the hard part, it has no built in optical or floppy, i dont have the external cdrom, and i wont boot from any other cdrom, i do have the floppy drive....right now its running win XP ok, but i want to get linux on here, where do i start? |
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cyrillic
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Joined: 19 Feb 2003
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Location: Groton, Massachusetts USA
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Probably the easiest installation method would be to pull the harddrive out of this laptop, and plug it into a desktop machine that does have a bootable cdrom drive, then move it back after you have enough installed so it can boot on its own.
ps. Laptop -> Desktop harddrive adapters cost around $10 |
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MobileNeophyte
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I have the adaptor, and had this idea as a last resort, because taking this laptop apart is the biggest PINTA!!! |
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MobileNeophyte
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Ahh, comon guys, there has to be a way i can use the floppy or the built in lan to get something working.... |
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LostSon
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CompNerd
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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You will have to use ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net) for the Linksys Wireless Card. Unfortunately, there are no native (kernel level/user level) drivers for the card, and as such you have to resort to using windows drivers with ndiswrapper.
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cyrillic
Watchman
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Location: Groton, Massachusetts USA
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Your laptop probably supports PXE booting (boot from the network), so you could use the method detailed in the alternative installation guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
Although, I'm not sure if this would be any easier than pulling the harddrive ... |
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