Linux distro for really old laptop?
Linux distro for really old laptop?
Got a laptop here, Digital Equipment Corporation put this thing out as part of its death throws in the mid-1990s. Oh my...
This one is a DEC HiNote VP, specifically the TS31D submodel. It has an original Pentium I running at 120MHz (no MMX or anything!), forty megs of RAM (eight onboard, plus a 32mb stick), and a just-larger-than-a-gig (1083mb) hard drive that appears to be in fine condition for its age.
As the RAM is maxed to the gills here (!), I really don't see this running a Pup, hence my placement of this thread in Off Topic...
I do have a floppy drive for it, and it has a pair of PCMCIA (not CardBus! *real* PCMCIA, which is ISA-based stuff) slots. I have a PCMCIA SCSI CD-RW drive (HP) and the drivers for it.
The power adapter is strange, though -- it uses a special cable (detachable) to go between the computer and the adapter, or it plugs straight in instead of the floppy drive. Guess what the one cable I *don't* have is...? I've got a way around it but it'll take me a bit of time to get it going, I've got to do a little simple solder work to replace the cable socket with a compatible cable which I've got off a Dell brick... fun fun fun
Once I get that done I'm in serious biz. I don't fancy using Win95 on this old tin can tho -- so what Linux can I put on here that will fit in it and run? (I will say I do not like DSL one tiny bit. Too dang ugly.)
@goingnuts -- I don't know if you'll see this but if you do -- can you post up somewhere a *not* corrupted image of XWOAF? I have a copy but it fails its own CRC check and won't fully boot I'd love to try it on this thing...
This one is a DEC HiNote VP, specifically the TS31D submodel. It has an original Pentium I running at 120MHz (no MMX or anything!), forty megs of RAM (eight onboard, plus a 32mb stick), and a just-larger-than-a-gig (1083mb) hard drive that appears to be in fine condition for its age.
As the RAM is maxed to the gills here (!), I really don't see this running a Pup, hence my placement of this thread in Off Topic...
I do have a floppy drive for it, and it has a pair of PCMCIA (not CardBus! *real* PCMCIA, which is ISA-based stuff) slots. I have a PCMCIA SCSI CD-RW drive (HP) and the drivers for it.
The power adapter is strange, though -- it uses a special cable (detachable) to go between the computer and the adapter, or it plugs straight in instead of the floppy drive. Guess what the one cable I *don't* have is...? I've got a way around it but it'll take me a bit of time to get it going, I've got to do a little simple solder work to replace the cable socket with a compatible cable which I've got off a Dell brick... fun fun fun
Once I get that done I'm in serious biz. I don't fancy using Win95 on this old tin can tho -- so what Linux can I put on here that will fit in it and run? (I will say I do not like DSL one tiny bit. Too dang ugly.)
@goingnuts -- I don't know if you'll see this but if you do -- can you post up somewhere a *not* corrupted image of XWOAF? I have a copy but it fails its own CRC check and won't fully boot I'd love to try it on this thing...
http://www.retro-pc.net/musei/notebook/ ... dex_ru.htm
I believe the above is what this new machine looks like. Man Starhawk that is a nice styley piece of kit. I look forward to reading more about what you get to run on it.
Some images of it in this search https://www.google.com/search?q=DEC+HiN ... A1#imgrc=_
I believe the above is what this new machine looks like. Man Starhawk that is a nice styley piece of kit. I look forward to reading more about what you get to run on it.
Some images of it in this search https://www.google.com/search?q=DEC+HiN ... A1#imgrc=_
In a past life I was a laptop support person in a small school - I always had several old lappies to play with. I can't help with puppies but one like that DEC would run an early Xandros quite well, or maybe an early 'buntu.
It would be great with NT4 Workstation or even Win2000.
Whoever thought you'd need a HDD bigger than 1 Gb?
It would be great with NT4 Workstation or even Win2000.
Whoever thought you'd need a HDD bigger than 1 Gb?
What can you do with an old laptop computer.
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The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
I would look at really old versions of Linux that were developed around the time this was the latest hardware.
Puppy 1.0 may run on it.
Puppy 1.0 may run on it.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
Hi Starhawk,
Suddenly remembered about this may be the answer and still being developed: http://delicate-linux.net/
Suddenly remembered about this may be the answer and still being developed: http://delicate-linux.net/
Having kinda been and done that.
http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2008/10/dam ... ompaq.html
http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2008/09/com ... ws-95.html
Back in 2008 or so
http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2009/07/fix ... -gear.html
My mission statement for that old door stop would be to try and maybe run
http://womp.sourceforge.net/
Hook a in line rca jacks like this to the headphone jack on that laptop
http://www.amazon.com/3-5mm-Mini-Plug-C ... B000LMFS7M
The rca jacks plug into the input section of a old throw away stereo boom box or amp.
Run a online streaming radio receiver out of it. KISS, Done and Done. I have one linux desktop that does this already in the motorcycle shop with a old Sansui tuner/amp combo box with a bunch of speakers hanging from the ceiling. Cuz Linux Roks.
You asked. That is how I would roll with it.
http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2008/10/dam ... ompaq.html
http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2008/09/com ... ws-95.html
Back in 2008 or so
http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2009/07/fix ... -gear.html
My mission statement for that old door stop would be to try and maybe run
http://womp.sourceforge.net/
Hook a in line rca jacks like this to the headphone jack on that laptop
http://www.amazon.com/3-5mm-Mini-Plug-C ... B000LMFS7M
The rca jacks plug into the input section of a old throw away stereo boom box or amp.
Run a online streaming radio receiver out of it. KISS, Done and Done. I have one linux desktop that does this already in the motorcycle shop with a old Sansui tuner/amp combo box with a bunch of speakers hanging from the ceiling. Cuz Linux Roks.
You asked. That is how I would roll with it.
Fair enough.Alas, I have no use for such a distro as WOMP... I already have a multitasking-capable computer quite well able to make loud noises come out of my speakers
Those old links I posted earlier. My selling points when I sold them. And I did sell them for my asking price. Was the media center files like .pls and m4a. that I had on there.
Nothing sells a laptop quicker than having some internet radio station booming out of a boombox. Then a movie playing through a TV off a .avi file.
Just saying.
@darry, thanks for the deli link. I learned something new today.
" Why not go for the truly miserable experience and use DOS? "
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Better with Quikmenu.
Between that and Xtreegold was how I learnt a little about computers.
http://www.files32.com/QuikMenu-III--fo ... i74784.asp
QuikMenu III (for DOS) is a Windows-like graphical desktop environment
for DOS systems.
QuikMenu has a highly cusomizable interface complete with icons,
fonts, buttons and wallpaper.
http://www.files32.com/godownload/74784.asp
Chris.
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Better with Quikmenu.
Between that and Xtreegold was how I learnt a little about computers.
http://www.files32.com/QuikMenu-III--fo ... i74784.asp
QuikMenu III (for DOS) is a Windows-like graphical desktop environment
for DOS systems.
QuikMenu has a highly cusomizable interface complete with icons,
fonts, buttons and wallpaper.
http://www.files32.com/godownload/74784.asp
Chris.