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> The laptop with BL2 on CF card is coming by in 50 min to be donated
> to us because the owner thinks BL is too complicated to learn (and other
> linuxes need more than 48MB RAM to work with Firefox online).

Thanks for the pointers on how to boot directly to X, Steven.

This computer is now mine because someone bought a new one and their old 
one is going to the 8 year old with Windows on it instead of this one.
1GB hard drive instead of the CF-IDE drive which they kept.

Compaq Armada 4120 with a separate expansion module containing CD-ROM 
drive, midi port, and better speakers.  Laptops don't often come with midi 
ports.  I will use this one with the midi piano as a player/recorder.
It is too slow for piano tuning software.  250MHz is borderline.

16MB onboard and a 32MB module.  (64MB is sold too).

It was not booting disk2 of BL3.5 which I fixed by running the setup 
floppy (took a few reboots for it to be recognized) due to a 605 error 
meaning it was set to 720K floppy instead of 1.44MB.  Which made it hard 
to boot the setup floppy.  Lots of lines of errors and it could not find 
disk2.tgz.  Setup auto corrected the problem and it boots BL now with no 
complaints.  Dead CMOS battery?  DOS hwinfo identified it as a 720K floppy 
before the problem was fixed.  Disk2 also booted very very slowly.  I am 
surprised it worked at all.  Other DOS boot floppies did boot.
Armadas have their own setup floppies, specific to different series.

CL video with 1MB video RAM.  800x600 256 color max, like the Armada 
1510DM (which has 512K video ram).

Works as plain VGA and not as 640x480x15 (scrambled screen progressing 
eventually to wrong colors of XVESA).
Please add 800x600x4 (SVGA?) as an option in future BL.
(Did not test framebuffer X but it did not work in 1510DM though console 
framebuffer did work).  SVGA server works with the 1510DM and Steven's 
XF86Config and should work here too, set to 8-bit color.

It is very lightweight (battery doubles as a removable handle and floppy 
drive can also be removed) for carrying to the library.
Opera is hard to read in 8-bit color even with Classic Windows buttons.

Sindi