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[progbuddy]

I like this project; just not Dells :p. They burst into flames, explode, die, crash, overheat, etc. Anyways, great idea. +rep for being a total geek

[Mitternacht]

I got a labtop mod too that's gonna start to get off the ground soon. Good luck.

[xRyokenx]

As far as I know there is no radiation from a CD drive... there is a laser in it though, and that may be what they're talking about, so you might need something more than plexi to cover it...

[Ticien]

Ive seen a lot of people who have modded windows into CD-Rom drives with no issues. There is a laser in it but as far as i know it doesnt hurt anything...at least i hope not, i have plans for that too

[Canadian Eh?]

DSL (Damn Small linux) might be a good bet... I think the whole install is like 30mb..?

I checked. It is actually 50 mb. It is what it is...Damn Small!

[chaksq]

I have been too busy too work on this for a while but I haven't given up. I am in the middle of a few school projects and this is not my current priority.

Ive seen a lot of people who have modded windows into CD-Rom drives with no issues. There is a laser in it but as far as i know it doesnt hurt anything...at least i hope not, i have plans for that too

Now that I think of it I have seen stereos sold from places like sharper image with clear covers over the drives so you can see the spinning disk so that should not be an issue.

I checked. It is actually 50 mb. It is what it is...Damn Small!

I have plenty of room however due to some weird BIOS issue or something the laptop won't run ramdisks nessacary to boot from CD which I need in order to upgrade. It has enough ram. This was given to me free as a hand-me-down company laptop from a guy who worked for a large engineering firm the closed. I think the company's IT people messed with it so it can't be altered they still owned it. I have had similar issues with a few Compaq desktops I got from the same source.

At any rate I have tried installing Windows 2000 pro (which I have used on systems with way worse specs), Mandrake Linux, and even tried to boot from two live Linux CDs one of which was Puppy linux. Nothing worked. The only way I think I can upgrade is to install the OS on a hard drive in another computer and transfer it back to this one which could create hardware support issues.

[Luke122]

Still working on this project?

[chaksq]

I haven't done any work on it lately but I still plan on completing it. Thanks for your interest.

[fyrestarter63]

are you planning on using the case for the laptop for somthing?
if not i would consider buying it from you.

[Bopher]

I was able to download drivers for my USB keydrive for windows 95 when i was doing some work for my dad on his old computer. Don't ask. His thing was, if it works why mess with it. I think I downloaded the drivers from the website of the keydrive manufacturer.