I got this really old laptop (Pentium 100) and played around what I could do with it. DeLi Linux seems to be the distribution of choice for such a device.
Works out of the box
Works with extra effort
Works partly
Does not work at all
Not tested
| BIOS Update |
HP
provides the BIOS as a self-extracting ZIP file, which can be
unpacked with unzip. Inside you'll find a tool called COPYDISK.EXE and a BIOS.IMG file. Now this BIOS.IMG basically
is just a disc image from a floppy, except it has a 32 byte header before the real image. So some dd-magic will
do it:
dd if=BIOS.IMG of=MYBIOS.IMG bs=1 skip=32Or write it directly to a floppy: dd if=BIOS.IMG of=/dev/fd0 bs=1 skip=32Source of this tip |
| PCMCIA | These commands will do it:
modprobe pcmcia_core modprobe i82365 modprobe ds cardmgr |