On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 06:12:39AM -0000, dallas p wrote: I have an old
> laptop with a 5G hard drive. I would like to install a linux OS. I have
> not used Linux in over 10 years. I would like some suggestions as to which
> one to load and a place to download a bootable cd. I have lots of time to
> experiment now, I just need the starting point. I have an old Dell that
> works pretty darn good, but Windows XP and all the updates, are way too
> much for it. Looking forward to hearing all suggestions. Thanks so much,
> Peggie
Greetings: You've gotten some responses, here's mine:
Playing with a circa '97 Toshiba Tecra, 233mHz Pentium MMX CPU, 160mB DRAM,
evaluating WiFi with that Legacy machine..
First off discovered the internal CD drive would not boot CD-RW burns, just
CD-R's, meaning more coasters produced.. YMMV.. :^(
Fetched the latest version of Slax, running as a live CD, worked fine in VESA
frame buffer mode only, not Xorg, KDE Desktop.. Slax-6.1.2.iso, when booted
presents a menu to select VESA..
Puppy 4.1.2, 4.3.1 and later would not run good and 4.3.1 later would not
boot.. I modified 4.1.2 removing some apps; reburned and it ran fine after
that as a live CD..
Slackware 12.0, 12.1 and 13.0 would not install without issues but version
11.0, kernel 2.4.33.3 worked fine at least in CLI mode.. Didn't try GUI..
Got a report from another that BasicLinux V2x worked legacy and V3x, VESA
Frame Buffer mode only, worked.. I've had no hands on with that distribution
but understand it's a good one..
Bottom line; it seems machines designed for Win95 and updated to Win98, can
have many issues unless one wants to use them for very basic stuff.. The new
coding just doesn't like them.. Good luck, HTH..
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Hal UNIX-GNU/Linux; Slackware 13.0 kernel 2.6.29.6-JFS
www.asciiribbon.org
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