Re: second set o laptop questions

["Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart microlink net>]

On Sat, 05 Sep 1998, Brett Jones half-heartedly stated:
>More questions in prep for my new/old laptop. 
>
>Compaq 4/25 LTE, 120 meg HDD, 8 megs ram.
>
>I guess the machine only has a 120 meg HDD (not 170). So that being the
>case, and the fact I want to try a different Linux dist:
>
>A. What is the best dist. for a super light CLI install (I'm eyeing
>Debian 2.0, but I don't know it's size)?

Not sure about the lightest but, I know there're versions that will
from strictly from floppy.

All you really _must_ have is the kernel and a few support utilities,
no matter what distro.

>B. If push comes to shove, are laptop HDD's standardized (like desktops
>and ide). Would it be easy to get a newer/bigger HDD?

Yep, just a little more expensive and smaller (2.5") than the desktop
models.

Same problems: bios not able to recognize beyond certain limits in some
models. Can be fixed with a newer bios if you have that problem. May
not matter if you partition with a small boot partition or boot from
floppy since linux can handle large disks.

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