Getting another browser on a laptop

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I have an old 486 laptop loaded with lots of MS stuff I never use, and
plan to uninstall/delete. It has an unpatched IE 3.0.
It has an external floppy drive, no CD drive.

I plan to convert the laptop to basically all freeware like my desktop.

I want to install Netscape 4.79 (please, no comments). That program is
about 18 MB. I plan to load OB1 from a floppy, then browse to find
Netscape, d/l it and install on the laptop.

Is this the best approach in this situation?

Mike Sa
 
I have an old 486 laptop loaded with lots of MS stuff I never use, and
plan to uninstall/delete. It has an unpatched IE 3.0.
It has an external floppy drive, no CD drive.

I plan to convert the laptop to basically all freeware like my desktop.

I want to install Netscape 4.79 (please, no comments). That program is
about 18 MB. I plan to load OB1 from a floppy, then browse to find
Netscape, d/l it and install on the laptop.

Is this the best approach in this situation?
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Only if you don't have any access to the hardware that would enable
you to set up a file transfer or a network.
It's pretty easy to build a null modem cable, which you can use in
conjunction with Interlnk ( see DOS commands ).

Other than that, you can buy laptop hard drive interface adaptors (
ebay, five quid ) that allow you to connect the laptop's drive to your
desktop machine as a secondary hard drive, and thus transfer files
that way.

Regards,
 
Steve H said:
Only if you don't have any access to the hardware that would enable
you to set up a file transfer or a network.
It's pretty easy to build a null modem cable, which you can use in
conjunction with Interlnk ( see DOS commands ).

Other than that, you can buy laptop hard drive interface adaptors (
ebay, five quid ) that allow you to connect the laptop's drive to your
desktop machine as a secondary hard drive, and thus transfer files
that way.

Regards,
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I agree with Steve, setting up a null modem would be the way to go. I've
had to do this myself on a similiar laptop.
 
ms said:
I have an old 486 laptop loaded with lots of MS stuff I never use, and
plan to uninstall/delete. It has an unpatched IE 3.0.
It has an external floppy drive, no CD drive.

I plan to convert the laptop to basically all freeware like my desktop.

I want to install Netscape 4.79 (please, no comments). That program is
about 18 MB. I plan to load OB1 from a floppy, then browse to find
Netscape, d/l it and install on the laptop.

Is this the best approach in this situation?
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Hi Mike,

You could use a file splitter and transfer the file from another
machinge via floppy:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004FILEUTILITIES.htm#FileSplitter

Chainsaw

Susan
 
Steve said:
Only if you don't have any access to the hardware that would enable
you to set up a file transfer or a network.
It's pretty easy to build a null modem cable, which you can use in
conjunction with Interlnk ( see DOS commands ).

Other than that, you can buy laptop hard drive interface adaptors (
ebay, five quid ) that allow you to connect the laptop's drive to your
desktop machine as a secondary hard drive, and thus transfer files
that way.

Regards,
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Thanks, I understood *most* of the above, will look into a null modem
cable.

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
IIRC, somewhere I have Netscape 4.79 on about 17
floppies. But I can just see about floppy #10, some error message that
hangs up. Maybe as a last resort, but thanks anyway.
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But in that case you just repeat floppy #10 until it works.
You do _not_ have to copy all the other floppy disks again,
as you would if using a spanned set of zipped floppies.
All the ChainSaw floppys can be loaded in what order you like.
(in fact you can do it with just one floppy reused)
When all floppies content are transferred to the harddsik, you start the BAT
file,
which collects the big file on the harddisk and deletes all the chunks.
http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004FILEUTILITIES.htm#FileSplitter
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is a good tool for your job.

Regrads
Thorkild Dlasgaard
 
Thorkild said:
But in that case you just repeat floppy #10 until it works.
You do _not_ have to copy all the other floppy disks again,
as you would if using a spanned set of zipped floppies.
All the ChainSaw floppys can be loaded in what order you like.
(in fact you can do it with just one floppy reused)
When all floppies content are transferred to the harddsik, you start the BAT
file,
which collects the big file on the harddisk and deletes all the chunks.

is a good tool for your job.

Regrads
Thorkild Dlasgaard
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Thanks, but long ago I did this in Winzip, don't even use it now. I
would have to do it over in Chainsaw.

Mike Sa
 
if you run a win32 OS you might want to try kmeleon - it is based on
mozilla but very small and fast http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
It will use about the same disk space as netscape 4 but is a lot more
up to date on the features/rendering, tabbed interface etc.

Might be more memory intensive, between 12 and 25Mb depending on
features turned on and the number of sites opened etc.

Some old free version of opera might work well to
 
as for transfering, again many versions of windows supported "serial
networking", where you could use a serial cable to connect two
machines.
This might be worth setting up if your laptop has a serial port (it
might, for external modems)
 
Iphigenie said:
if you run a win32 OS you might want to try kmeleon - it is based on
mozilla but very small and fast http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
It will use about the same disk space as netscape 4 but is a lot more
up to date on the features/rendering, tabbed interface etc.

Might be more memory intensive, between 12 and 25Mb depending on
features turned on and the number of sites opened etc.

Some old free version of opera might work well to
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Kmeleon was *very* slow loading on my P166, even with fixes, so it
would not work on a 486/33.

Mike Sa
 
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