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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> This implies that one ought to check hda hdb hdc and maybe hdd for 
> a /baslin.  Would the pcmcia memory card go to hdb in your case, or 
> hdd?

I'm not sure. I haven't even seen, much less used, a PCMCIA disk
adapter. Question: On your laptops, are both ide0 and ide1 listed
in dmesg, or just ide0?

> > I may be working on some things like this. I am interested in a way
> > to be able to make changes to a bootable BL CD (by saving the changes
> > to a USB key or other writable drive)
> 
> Please do and I will test the results.  How would you save to a USB 
> key without using a later kernel?

I would use a later kernel than 2.2.16.
 
> > - Use the current version either 1) with sox 2) with a newer kernel
> > 3) no sound
> I AM using sox and the whole point of this was to play sound (realaudio).

So is there a problem? MPlayer handles the decoding of realaudio, and
sox handles the playback?

> > I must say that you get a lot of hardware to try with BL. When I
> > look through the archives, it seems that every month you have
> > posted to the list about some new piece of hardware that you have
> > been given.
> 
> We have a reputation among friends and neighbors for recycling or 
> even finding homes for old computers.  The three latest donations 
> are from someone to whom we gave our spare ATX case that we got 
> with a nonusable board in it from someone who was asking where to 
> recycle 50 computers at our local bbs.  The 600 MHz on which we 
> replaced bad caps is from the brother of a neighbor whose yard 
> cycle we recycled after, as is the dual pentium-pro.  Just let 
> people know you will recycle for free and all sorts of things show 
> up on the porch.  I think our new cutoff will be 233MHz.

For desktops? Or do you actually get laptops that new? Even dead
Pentium MMX or better laptops are selling for $100+ on eBay.

> Also we used to volunteer running the electronics dept at a local 
> Kiwanis club with a weekly rummage sale and we still fix things 
> there and raid the dumpster.  We now have two dead PDAs - can you 
> put linux on them if they revive?

How dead are they? I have a Palm Zire that worked for me (but only
ran certain software) until the screen went out. It's not very
useful now that the screen merely displays stripes. I wonder how I
can fix it.

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