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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> 133MHz laptop with 48MB RAM 
>
> Intended use is only wireless internet, with an 
> orinoco card (needs 2.4 kernel).  

My orinoco wireless cards do not need 2.4 kernel.  
They work fine on the 2.2.26 (using wvlan_cs).

> 48MB would probably run Seamonkey or Firefox 

I would strongly advise against trying Firefox on 
133MHz and 48mb RAM.  It will be very, very slow.
Horribly slow.  Don't go there.  

Opera is better.  And, of course, links2 will perform 
very well on that hardware.

> Can these cards even be partitioned to fat 

CF cards usually come preformatted with FAT.

> and ext2 (two partitions)?

Yes, you should be able to partition and format 
a CF card like an IDE harddrive.

> The puppy linux boot floppy has drivers for booting from 
> CF drive (using grub).  I don't understand grub, but maybe 
> there is something useful to be learned from it anyway.

Although it should be possible to run BL3 from 
a CF card, it will be tricky to get it booted.
If you are short of time, you should consider 
installing puppy linux, since it is has an 
option for booting from CF drive.

Cheers,
Steven