I purchased an old old Toshiba Tecra 500CDT laptop from ebay. (pentium 150, 32 MB RAM, 1.2 GB HDD) It arrived last week. My project is to convert it to a digital picture frame. Here are my goals for the moment.
First I`m thinking to install debian to it. To do this I created boot floppies. I was thinking to boot from those floppies and continue on net installation. But it looks like the floppy is dead. I had a PCMCIA CDRom. But unfortunately the BIOS lets only to boot from FDD or HDD.
The next step will be installing zgv since i`m not planning to install X to the laptop. I hope that the svga device will be enough to display the digital pics.
Also I have a DWL-650 D-Link 802.11b PCMCIA Wireless card. I`m thinking to create an NFS shareon my home network somewhere and upload the pics to that share and of mount it to the laptop and read the pics from that share.
Another cool thing would be a mini info center. A web enabled info box that receives weather, traffic info and maybe some headlines and displays it in between the pics. Like 10 pics, 2 info – 10 pics, 2 info, etc… Wake up, see some loved ones on screen, and weather info, some more loved ones., what is that? Bush not reelected… mmm coool… aaaah mom and dad Aaaah zipiiir. AAaahhh zinoo mini sleepleees… Aaaah damn Metro is not working today!
Anyway i`ll let you know step by step