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Time for a half-time report. :)

Ok, I tried putting DSL on the toshiba. In the end, I had to take out the hard drive, install it on another computer (the IBM) and then put it back into the toshiba. Long winded, but (as far as installing went) it worked. Unfortunatly DSL didn't get far on the toshiba, in fact it didn't even get as far as any sort of command line prompt! It pretty much ran out of memory *long* before that time.

So I wondered what other versions (namely slackware) would do. So I tried slackware 9,4 and 7. Slackware 9 did exactly what DSL did, namely didn't get very far in and stopped preumably because it ran out of memory. 4 was more successful though a lot of hardware (such as sound) wasn't supported. 7 worked better and after modprobing with the correct IRQs and DMAs the sound playback worked. And although I never got a chance to try it, the 3com 3CCFE574BT card was detected ok (listed in dmesg and no errors). Though none of these detected the MA401.

So I'm probably going to try to use the network card and go through a wireless bridge which is probably the best (and only!) possibility. 

For a laugh :) I tried putting gnome from slackware 7 onto the liberetto. Definately slow (as I expected) but it certianly ran. I was expecting it to just run out of memory and grind to a complete and total halt. Kept on going though too slow to be really usable.

But now the question is should I stick with Slackware 7 or put BL3 and build it up with the needed modules? I'm still much more tempted to go with BL3 as it uses a *lot* less space (though I'd need to add 3CCFE574BT drivers and sound card drivers) but on the other hand SW7 got everything bar the MA401 card ok. Even a PCMCIA cdrom was detected and I could mount it with *no* errors :) .

ljones