> I was given a bunch of Ricoh NP-50 laptops a few weeks ago. Nothing
> special, but I have been having fun tinkering with them while I watch
> Mythbusters / Dirty Jobs. They are Pentium 90mhz, 64MB ram, 4-6GB hard
> drives. They have no onboard lan, one usb 1.1 port (can't boot off of
> it), 2 PCMICA slots, no cdrom drive, and an external parallel-attached
> floppy disc.
Do they have some kind of running system on them? If so you can use the
hd-install method. If they run Windows, check out
www.goodbye-microsoft.com. Otherwise, I'd recommend you take the HD out
and do the install on some other machine (or at least use the other
machine to place the hd-install files). For most laptops (sadly not
all), taking out the drive is very quick&painless, and external
enclosures are pretty cheap (I got mine next door for $20) and it's
always good to have one handy.
> Someone just recommended to me installing to a USB thumbdrive and using
> a floppy to load grub to boot off the USB thumbdrive.
Grub can only load a kernel from a disk seen by the BIOS, so that
probably won't work. At least, you'll need to put not just Grub but
also a kernel+initrd on that floppy.
Stefan
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