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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, James Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Otto Werner wrote:
> 
> > I hope i`m not totally OT here, but I need some help in installing a 
> > system to
> > a very small harddisk. If this is an exculpation, i`m no sysadmin but 
> > only an
> > user with some limited experience in linux. So my problem :
> > I have an old notebook -Compaq Contura Aero 4/25 CPU 486 8MB Ram 170 MB
> > harddisk - wth dos 6.2.2.After retirement I`m starting on some voyages for
> > several month and want to take it with me for getting and sending e-mails.
> > With t-online one can do it via webmail.Is BL the right thing for me ? The
> > notebook has no diskette or cdrom, so the system must be installed on HD.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated
> 
 Almost certainly
> you'll have a PCMCIA modem or LAN card.  PCMCIA is not implemented by
> default in BL.  

We have a couple of 486s of this age (one has 2M RAM, the other does not
usually work so cannot try BL on them) and they do NOT have PCMCIA.  We
plug in an external modem via the serial port.  Is there any problem in
using an external modem with BL?

There are lots of free webmail sites around and you can most likely find
one that does not require java or javascript.  I use Lynx or Links with
email.seznam.cz.  They recently changed to requiring that you be able to
view graphics for the sign in, and Netscape 4 won't work to sign in, but
Lynx or Links with a viewer might do it.  Yahoo also works (or worked,
anyway) with Lynx (but it is a pain because of all the commercials). 

You can also telnet to my free bbs and use Lynx there faster than via a
modem.  Telnet is included with BL.