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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, rvijay07 wrote:

> The PC I am trying to recycle is almost 10 years old. It is actually 
> 100MHz but then had an upgrade to 200 MHz Processor. It has like 64 Megs 
> ram on it but no HD as it crashed. When I try to go online with DSL on 
> this it crashes. So I wish to put BL on it.

Is this a laptop computer?  If it is a desktop computer you could replace 
the hard drive easily and then put BL on hard drive instead of floppy or 
CD.  You can get a hard drive out of any older computer and just open up 
the case, unplug a power cable and a data cable, remove some screws and 
reverse the process with the replacement drive.  A 100MB drive is plenty 
for BL3 with applications.

Make sure you plug in the data (ribbon) cable with the red stripe nearest 
the power connector.  Often the drives and cables are keyed.

Are you planning to use your two computers in a network with DSL?  Or use 
the older one as a dumb terminal (X-server)?  I don't think you would need 
to dial with it as the dumb terminal.

Sindi