[frgeek-michiana] Re: Testing old Compaq laptops
- From: mdcsystems@xxxxxxxxxxx (Mike Cook)
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:38:23 +0000
I'll have to round up some decent floppy disks. If I can't find any the images
we need are less than 1.44M each so downloading them wouldn't be a problem.
Mike
menuetOS
http://sourceforge.net/projects/menuet/
1-disk, 2-disk
http://natld.berlios.de/download.htm
DSL
damnsmalllinux.org/
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Can you bring some likely candidates from among the ones you mention to
> try on Tuesday? Or, is it more convenient to download them and burn them
> to floppy or CD at the warehouse?
>
> For testing purposes, we probably don't need X. However, a photo of an X
> desktop running on one of the laptops might be impressive on the Ebay
> auction.
>
> Tom
>
> Mike Cook wrote:
> > We could try MenuetOS it has a gui and runs from a floppy. We might also
> > try
> 1-disk X, a floppy based Linux x windows system. Both should run on 16-32M.
> DS-Linux also will run on 16M though we might need a boot floppy. Puppy
> needs
> at least 32M although you might need a swap partition. I'm sure Slack or
> Debian
> would also work but it would be a struggle to get X running with that small
> amount of memory. Do we have a model number on these laptops? If so we might
> find additional info on Google. I'm sure we can find something to test them
> and
> make them look pretty.
> >
> > Mike
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >> Mike or Goose:
> >>
> >> Kevin wants to test the Compaq laptops in the server/storage room next
> >> Tuesday, before putting them on Ebay. As I recall, the laptops don't have
> >> much memory, maybe 16-32MB. I'd be surprised if any have 64MB.
> >>
> >> What will install on these extremely low resource laptops to test them?
> >>
> >> I believe we could try older Slackware or Debian releases, possibly an
> >> older
> >> Vector Linux, without X-Windows.
> >>
> >> Second, I'm not sure whether we can get these laptops to boot off CD.
> >>
> >> From the official Slackware site (current release is 12.0):
> >>
> >> Slackware Linux doesn't require an extremely powerful system to run (though
> >> having one is quite nice :). It will run on systems as far back as the 486.
> >> Below is a list of minimum system requirements needed to install and run
> >> Slackware.
> >>
> >> * 486 processor
> >> * 16MB RAM (32MB suggested)
> >> * 100-500 megabytes of hard disk space for a minimal install
> >> * 3.5" floppy drive
> >>
> >> Additional hardware may be needed if you want to run the X Window System at
> >> a usable speed or if you want network capabilities.
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >>
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