HD Install :: Installing DSL FROM HD Frugal No CDROM
Keep us posted. You can either try to do the "poorman's" installation with a network card, or maybe you can find an old zip drive that you can get mounted.
Using a spare HD is a great idea.
Come back if you have any specific questions.
DSL w/X is supposed to work with 32 MB, but I haven't been able to check it out yet. I am waiting to receive some extra memory.
Good luck!
It will indeed run with 32MB RAM, that's what my old laptop has. And it even has 1MB of video memory. I'm shocked it can do anything at all ;)
YES It's working!!!
I now have DSL up an running on my Libretto 70CT.
I was searching on Google for how to do this, when I suddenly stumbled into
this webpage: http://www.ottaky.com/lib70ct.php
That was where I found the solution.
I looked in the closet and found my old Toshiba Satellitte and installed DSL from there.
Then moved the disc and everything booted nicely on the smaller 70CT Libretto.
Quick, easy and working...
Maybe You also are able to use the same speedy workaround... ?
Sammy95 
With an old Panasonic CF-25 I installed with a zip drive by installing dsl on the zip drive using another system then used the floppy and booted with dsl zip so it looked on the pp port for the sip drive. This cf-25 is a very slow machine (p133 with 24M ram but runs like a 486 it is so slow).
With the cf-25 (and most compaqs) you need a boot floppy to get into the setup. I have found that with the cf25 almost anything will cause the bios to require you to enter setup (all I have to do is enter the setup then exit and everything is fine again) by demanding that I press F1 every boot. If you are having boot issues it may be just that you need to run the setup and save and exit (without making any changes).
As for network cards I have not found one yet (mostly old pcmcia, nics, and an smc usb device) that didn't work (although in another thread I did see an smc usb that did not work correctly (I think mine is the 2202 and the one that did not work was a 2206).
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