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Posted: 1/11/2015 12:54:16 PM EDT
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Should be very doable, especially if you aren't interested in XWindows (GUI) but just the command line. I wouldn't recommend compiling much on a 133mhz CPU (so stay away from Gentoo or LFS) but a small binary-disto would be a good fit.
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Posted: 1/11/2015 12:59:03 PM EDT
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You could try "Puppy". That's a pretty light distro.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 10:46:04 AM EDT
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How much ram you have will be a bigger issue than the processor speed.
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Posted: 1/12/2015 1:38:50 PM EDT
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Yeah..that's is what I think I've learned since last night.
The laptop is an old, 1997, Satellite 445. I think the RAM is maybe 1.5 GB. I might be off by a factor of 100. I was able to get the Puppy(?) version of UNIX up one time but then nothing. As I left it last night the laptop would not go past memory check so I think I'm working against other issues. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 3:59:31 PM EDT
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I'd try DSL (damn small linux) instead of Puppy. I have a Toshiba Tecra Pentium 166mhz sitting around but it has a bad cd drive, so I can't do any parallel testing with you. I have read on the DSL wiki someone has got it working on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDT (P1 133MHz, 64MB RAM, 6GB HDD)
ETA: you might need to make a boot floppy, since some of the early bios at the time did not support CD or usb boot. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 4:07:13 PM EDT
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Yeah..that's is what I think I've learned since last night. The laptop is an old, 1997, Satellite 445. I think the RAM is maybe 1.5 GB. I might be off by a factor of 100. Circa Windows 95? That would be a screamer with 16 MB of RAM. ETA And to think that these days FireFox will gladly get up to 1.5 GB + memory use. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 4:17:36 PM EDT
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Circa Windows 95? That would be a screamer with 16 MB of RAM. ETA And to think that these days FireFox will gladly get up to 1.5 GB + memory use. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah..that's is what I think I've learned since last night. The laptop is an old, 1997, Satellite 445. I think the RAM is maybe 1.5 GB. I might be off by a factor of 100. Circa Windows 95? That would be a screamer with 16 MB of RAM. ETA And to think that these days FireFox will gladly get up to 1.5 GB + memory use. My Tecra has Win98 and firefox running on it. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 5:35:23 PM EDT
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Yeah..that's is what I think I've learned since last night. The laptop is an old, 1997, Satellite 445. I think the RAM is maybe 1.5 GB. I might be off by a factor of 100. Circa Windows 95? That would be a screamer with 16 MB of RAM. ETA And to think that these days FireFox will gladly get up to 1.5 GB + memory use. My Tecra has Win98 and firefox running on it. Sure, version 3? 4? I think Win98 support dropped with v7 or 8. It's up to 34 now :-) |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 9:13:00 PM EDT
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Sure, version 3? 4? I think Win98 support dropped with v7 or 8. It's up to 34 now :-) Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yeah..that's is what I think I've learned since last night. The laptop is an old, 1997, Satellite 445. I think the RAM is maybe 1.5 GB. I might be off by a factor of 100. Circa Windows 95? That would be a screamer with 16 MB of RAM. ETA And to think that these days FireFox will gladly get up to 1.5 GB + memory use. My Tecra has Win98 and firefox running on it. Sure, version 3? 4? I think Win98 support dropped with v7 or 8. It's up to 34 now :-) Yes, it's vintage. I verified my cd drive no longer works, however I think I can use a pcmcia to CF adapter to copy DSL's startup folder to the hard drive, then create the boot floppy off of DSL's wiki to start the install process. |
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Posted: 1/12/2015 11:12:35 PM EDT
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Memory is at 144MB.
Drive is 1.2GB. I'll play more tomorrow. |
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Posted: 1/13/2015 8:40:25 PM EDT
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It finally booted all the way to Windows....98! I guess my brother must have installed it; I don't recall doing that.. I'm surprised the old beast works. |
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Posted: 1/17/2015 2:28:44 AM EDT
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I could use that thing for some radio work...the prices people want for some of the mid 90's generation of laptops is insane these days.
I use the Arch install/live CD to boot a P3 Dell I have so I can transfer files between it and a USB thumb drive. Works well with my CF-28 Toughbook as well...but I haven't quite figured out how to get the screen to display properly on that one yet (funny, the Toughbook has a 32GB SSD in it) and is currently running just FreeDOS. |
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