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Someone asked for our help installing some operating system to a laptop 
computer with an empty hard drive (no OS) and no floppy drive.  Will BL3 
work for the following, assuming he has a non-cardbus wireless card that 
works with a 2.2 kernel?  What is a Remote Desktop client?  Is he trying 
to use the laptop as a wireless remote terminal to a desktop or maybe just 
to share a broadband connection?  Steven already explained how to share a 
modem connection with a default gateway and a few modules and a firewall.

My Cisco wireless card worked with BL3.40.  If he uses BL he would need a 
2.2-kernel-compatible wireless card.  My linksys needed 2.4 kernel. I 
found instructions on how to use a USB wireless card in linux but I doubt 
he has USB on the laptop.

We plan to temporarily move his hard drive to another laptop computer, or 
to an adaptor that fits into a desktop, then format and install via floppy 
disk and/or CD and/or USB flash drive.  Unless it can be made to boot from 
a parallel port zip drive.  It does NOT boot from CD-ROM drive and has no 
floppy drive.

We could partition his 2 GB and give BL 200MB to play in and put DSL on 
the rest for a while, since he has broadband to download it and lots of 
RAM.

Any ideas?


Sindi


> From the laptop owner:

My objective is to get this thing to run a web browser and Remote Desktop
client and work with a PCMCIA wireless card (I'll have to dig; I'm not sure
I have one of those), so either Linux or Windows 2000 will work AFAIK.

IIRC it has a 2 GB HD and 72 MB RAM. Plently for Windows 2000 and probably
some thin Linux distros.