Latitude CPi & a surprise!

[MrMacPlus]

I went to fix somebody's computer today (it's going to end up being an OS reinstall), and managed to get a Dell Latitude CPi laptop, along with a wireless network card. The poor pentium II machine has Windows XP on it and was used by a school, so I will need to crack the BIOS (maybe) to get Linux on it. The other computer will have Xubuntu installed on it before it goes back to the people that hired me. woot!

EDIT: Check my post below.

 

[MrMacPlus]

Ah, crap. The CPi doesn't have a CD drive. It has USB but I have no UsB CD drive, this will be a long process... The other one is an HP from around 2004 that has a clogged up install of XP on it.

 

[MrMacPlus]

Xubuntu failed to boot after I installed it so I went with PC-BSD, which suffices. I think the owner might give the lappy to me (I really hope so, I've fallen in love with it's matte widescreen monitor). He has several other computers, including a Toshiba lappy, an iBook G3, an aluminum iMac. He also was (he told me) a previous owner of a IIgs and a Mac IIcx. The other lappy (the dell) is screwed up BIG time. It was dropped, so the screen sits at an odd angle, a screw is missing, so the screen (when latched) pulls the plastic up. It has a 3.25GB HD so it's destined to be a HD transplant donor.

 

[mr camouflage]

I have an old CPiA. Was my first (second hand) laptop. I upgraded it to the P2 500mhz processor (was a P1 333mhz i believe), and picked up a docking station and dvd drive for it too. Drives are swappable as you probably know. Put a new HD in it which sped things up alot. Had a wireless card. Battery died about 3 years ago, and I never bothered getting a new battery. I'd gotten a dual usb iBook by then.

 

[iamdigitalman]

What is it about the CPi and this forum? I had one, gave it to a friend, and the motherboard gave out. Course by the time I gave it to her, the LCD had a vertical line permanently on the screen in red, and the keyboard was missing a couple keys, including the rubber membrane part, so the onscreen keyboard in windows 2000 was proudly splayed on the desktop.

These and the thinkpad T2x is like the preferred machine on here.

 

[Cory5412]

Is the CPi the one that's a one-spindle design that relied on the dock station, or am I thinking of the CS?

Anyway, does it actually ahve a bios password? If not-- you should be able to install linux with no problem. Although the method you use may need to be creative, as I don't think the CPi will boot from USB. (The CS won't.) -- It may boot from compact flash in a PCMCIA > CF adapter though.

 

[MrMacPlus]

Ah, well, I returned the HP lappy. Got paid $20 (not bad), and reieved iMovie for OS 9, Leopard (!! !!), and another copy Leopard! Of course, the Leopard was just lended to me, so I assume it's a 5-lisence pack. :-/

Thank you iMac600 for LeopardAssist, I will install Leopard TONIGHT!

EDIT: "Mac OS X can not be installed on this computer"

Gah.

Also, I forgot to mention that I got PageMill 3.0 on CD.