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i got a new jump drive on Saturday, a Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 — 256Mb. It claimed to be “Linux compatible.” Well, it had a screwed up partition table that made it unreadable in Debian systems. Well, after playing around with QtParted, fdisk, cfdisk, parted, and sfdisk, it now works correctly as a “Linux compatible” drive while still being readable in Windows. Then, because KDE has been giving me problems with mounting the usb drives, i finally edited /etc/fstab for the jump drives.
Also, i am resurrecting a Pentium 150MHz laptop for a friend and have found that Ubuntu Lite has been the best solution. With only 80Mb of RAM and 4.8Gb of hard drive, UL, with iceWM, has been the fatest GUI for the 800×600x8bit display. i am still working on playing with Xorg to display in 16-bit color (and hopefully even 24-bit), but that hasn’t been resolved yet. i put into the PCMCIA socket a USB reader (so that it can use a USB mouse and jump-drive) and a wi-fi card. Ubuntu came with the necessary module (airo) preloaded, so it worked right out of the box, but i’m having problems with the USB card. dmesg and cardctl report that the card isn’t powered on, so i’m hunting down a solution for that one. Also, i haven’t been able to get ALSA working (apparently, Ubuntu lacks alsaconf and module-assistant), so it is currently without sound. Once those problems are resolved, it will be a decent computer, resurrected from the grave, and able to be a stable terminal.