Project update: The floppies did NOT come in as planned yesterday, hoping for today's delivery. I gave in and opened up Ken's box of goodies anyway. The M33's are both W5M's, and system memory is 640 kb, extended memory is 31 MB. The hard drive is 3.9 GB, 3.34 GB free on the Win95 unit (using only 575 MB). I'm amazed at that!
I'll have to search the how-to's and see if I can get inside to upgrade the ram. I bought two 128 MB memory sticks on Ador's suggestion. Unit #1 boots to Plop Menu and Unit #2 boots up Win95. Cute little toughbooks. I booted up the one with Plop, hoping to install a minimal Ubuntu distro (12.5MB), and then use the LAN to upgrade the system with home network. Unfortunately, I could NOT fool the system to boot from the Panasonic CF-VDRRT3. (more reading on plop needed).
I could NOT get the Panasonic KXC RW10A CD-R/RW with PCMIA card adaptor to work either.
So update: Floppies arrived. Creating the two disks is easy for disk2, and harder for disk1.image, as it must be raw. You can drag and drop the disk 2 contents into a formatted floppy, however disk 1 takes some work. I tried all kinds of code in Linux and then found this website:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Har ... rite.shtml
The program loaded on my back up drive CF-30 with Windows7, and I created the boot raw image disk for BasLinux3. She boots up and then loads, prompting you to exchange disk 1 for disk 2 and hit enter. The little Linux system loads and then....it's in terminal mode, and I'll need to read up on commands, etc. There is a stand alone GUI, that can be executed and requires 8mb RAM. I'm beat, and ready to call it an evening for now. Hopeful to find out how to increase the RAM, and go from there. Good news is that the CF-VDRRT3 worked on my idle M34, and I installed CrunchBang version #20130506 Waldorf 32 bit, and she works great!
That's all for now, gotta catch up on how to upgrade the memory in the M33's
